Let me draw you a picture: coordination in image-enabled conversation.

Preliminary findings are presented from a qualitative investigation of image making during small group interactions. A discourse-oriented methodology was used to capture and analyze video recordings of conversations involving the creation of drawings. Preliminary findings highlight the dual nature of drawing as both information artifact and communicative activity in terms of contrasting affordances. This study has heuristic and best-practice implications for the development of multimodal information and communication technologies such as virtual collaboration tools and information visualization interfaces.