Illi, MikkoGustafsson, RobinMasoodian, Masood2024-06-062024-06-062024https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/5124This poster expands the human-computer interaction perspective of visual metaphors into group meeting contexts to improve collaboration planning in group meetings. We present a study in which the participants used the LEGO® Serious Play® method in group meetings. The meetings were videotaped, and then transcribed and analysed using a thematic analysis method. We used the semantic, cognitive, and material properties of metaphors for this analysis. The analysis produced various coded themes and narratives of collaboration planning centred around the visual metaphor of landscapes. The participants built these landscapes by stacking and connecting LEGO base pieces, to create metaphorical environments in which they placed and linked different stakeholders. Landscape metaphors were alternatively used to centre activities around key persons. This study shows that the use of physical artefacts to create visual landscape metaphors provides an effective method for planning collaborations in group meetings.enCollaboration planningGroup meetingLandscape metaphorsVisual metaphorsPhysical artefactsText/Conference Paper10.48340/ecscw2024_po032510-2591