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”I need to respond to this” – Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions

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Alberta A. Ansah,

Amudha Varshini Kamaraj,

Orit ShaerAuthors Info & Claims

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

Article No.: 7, Pages 1 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533411

Published: 08 June 2022 Publication History

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Remote meetings have become more prevalent due to the COVID-19 pandemic and technology that facilitates remote work. There is limited research on the effect of remote meetings on group performance and the goal of this study is to identify how distractions affect the individual and group creativity in remote work meetings. A virtual study was conducted where groups of four people participated in divergent and convergent thinking tasks. One group member was assigned an additional non-meeting task while another was assigned as a scribe. Measures of creative performance (e.g., uniqueness of idea) of the distracted members and the group were analyzed. The results show that the distractee contributed (on average) less time and ideas when compared to monotaskers and those assigned as a scribe. The study highlights ways that remote meetings can facilitate creativity.

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Index Terms

”I need to respond to this” – Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3637414
Ohnaka KImagawa TIso KIhara MKobayashi M(2024)Quantitative Observation to Explore the Turn-Changing Mechanisms of Conversations in Remote Meetings Accompanying Supplemental MaterialsCollaboration Technologies and Social Computing10.1007/978-3-031-67998-8_11(161-176)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2024
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-67998-8_11
Jackson VPrikladnicki Rvan der Hoek AMarshall L(2023)Team Creativity in a Hybrid Software Development World: Eight ApproachesIEEE Software10.1109/MS.2022.322935340:2(60-69)Online publication date: Mar-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2022.3229353

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