Exploring the role of sketching on shared understanding in design

How designers express agreement: The role of multimodal communication in communicating agreement and reaching shared understanding during conceptual design

Does sketching stand alone as a communication too during concept generation in design teams?

Conversations around design sketches: Use of communication channels for sharing mental models during concept generation

A framework for reaching common understanding during sketching in design teams

Industrial design sketching for concept generation sketching: A parallel thinking process