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The Future of Hybrid Meetings

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Marios Constantinides,

Daniele QuerciaAuthors Info & Claims

CHIWORK '22: Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work

Article No.: 6, Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533415

Published: 08 June 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Meetings are typically considered to be the fuel of an organization’s productivity—a place where employees discuss ideas and make collective decisions. However, it is no secret that meetings are also often perceived as wasteful vacuums, depleting employee morale and productivity, likely due to the fact that current technologies fall short in fully supporting physical or virtual meeting experience. In this position paper, we discuss the three key elements that make a meeting successful (i.e., execution, psychological safety, and physical comfort), and present new tools for hybrid meetings that incorporate those elements. As past research has focused on supporting meeting execution (the first element), we set the roadmap for future research on the two other elements: on psychological safety by articulating how new technologies could make meeting useful for all participants, ensure all participants give and receive appropriate levels of attention, and enable all participants to feel and make others feel comfortable; and on physical comfort by dwelling on how new technologies could make the meeting experience comfortable by integrating all human senses. We also discuss the potential danger of these technologies inadvertently becoming surveillance tools.

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