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Retrofitting Meetings for Psychological Safety

Human-Computer Interaction 2021-09-28 v1

Abstract

Meetings are the fuel of organizations' productivity. At times, however, they are perceived as wasteful vaccums that deplete employee morale and productivity. Current meeting tools, to a great extent, have simplified and augmented the ways meetings are conducted by enabling participants to ``get things done'' and experience a comfortable physical environment. However, an important yet less explored element of these tools' design space is that of psychological safety -- the extent to which participants feel listened to, or motivated to be part of a meeting. We argue that an interdisciplinary approach would benefit the creation of new tools designed for retrofitting meetings for psychological safety. This approach comes with not only research opportunities -- ranging from sensing to modeling to user interface design -- but also challenges -- ranging from privacy to workplace surveillance.

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@article{arxiv.2109.12976,
  title  = {Retrofitting Meetings for Psychological Safety},
  author = {Marios Constantinides and Sagar Joglekar and Daniele Quercia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.12976},
  year   = {2021}
}

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4 pages

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