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CR: A game to guide the discussion during the meeting
Problem
While Synchronous Respect Trees effectively signal priority topics between meetings, it is insufficient for democratically controlling the actual flow of discussion during meetings. Several factors limit SRT's ability to guide real-time discussion:
- Context variability: Optimal meeting agendas vary by context. Sometimes participants want broad coverage (5-minute presentations on multiple topics), other times deep discussion until reaching conclusions
- Topic dependencies: Some topics logically need to be discussed in a specific order, regardless of SRT ranking
- Emergent priorities: Urgent issues may arise right before meetings that require immediate attention, even if they didn't participate in SRT
- Discussion dynamics: Good discussions cannot be precisely planned in advance; their flow depends on participant engagement and where the conversation naturally leads
- Participants availability: It might make sense to postpone a topic if relevant stakeholders are not participating in the current meeting. Also some participants may be available for only part of the meeting, affecting topic prioritization.
Request
Create a simple game that allows meeting participants to signal when to switch topics and potentially prioritize topics during the meeting itself. This would complement SRT by:
- Using pre-meeting SRT results as guidelines for the agenda
- Giving participants real-time control over meeting flow
- Enabling dynamic topic switching based on live participant signals
- Allowing consensus building on when sufficient discussion has occurred on a topic