Towards reporting criteria for observational communication coding

The aim of this workshop is to set an interdisciplinary standard for future work involving observational coding of synchronous human-human interaction. To that end, we will:

• develop potential guidelines and quality criteria for reporting about the development and use of observational coding measures;
• prioritize and determine a final set of guidelines and criteria;
• describe these guidelines and criteria in a collaborative publication, to be submitted for publication in an open-access peer-reviewed journal, and to be dispersed within our respective disciplinary fields through additional publications; and
• explore the preferred format, and devise an action plan for a (bi)annual international meeting on observational coding.

This workshop will be considered a success if we: (1) reach consensus on the key quality and reporting criteria for observational coding tools; (2) have submitted a scientific publication reporting about these criteria within one year of the workshop, to which all attendees have had the opportunity to contribute as co-author; and (3) have established long-term cross-disciplinary collaboration on this methodology, e.g., in the form of a recurring international meeting or a methodological online peer support platform.