"I need to respond to this" - Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions

Alberta A. Ansah; Yilun Xing; Amudha Varshini Kamaraj; Diana Tosca; Linda Boyle; Shamsi Iqbal; Andrew L. Kun; John D. Lee; Michel Pahud; Orit Shaer

doi:10.1145/3533406.3533411

"I need to respond to this" - Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions

Alberta A. Ansah, Yilun Xing, Amudha Varshini Kamaraj, Diana Tosca, Linda Boyle, Shamsi Iqbal, Andrew L. Kun, John D. Lee, Michel Pahud, Orit Shaer

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHIWORK 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450396554
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533411
State	Published - Jun 8 2022
Event	1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work, CHIWORK 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Jun 8 2022 → Jun 9 2022

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work, CHIWORK 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	6/8/22 → 6/9/22

Keywords

Collaboration
Tasks/Interruptions/Notification
Workplaces

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Ansah, A. A., Xing, Y., Kamaraj, A. V., Tosca, D., Boyle, L., Iqbal, S., Kun, A. L., Lee, J. D., Pahud, M., & Shaer, O. (2022). "I need to respond to this" - Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions. In CHIWORK 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work Article 7 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533411

"I need to respond to this" - Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions. / Ansah, Alberta A.; Xing, Yilun; Kamaraj, Amudha Varshini et al.
CHIWORK 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. 7 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Ansah, AA, Xing, Y, Kamaraj, AV, Tosca, D, Boyle, L, Iqbal, S, Kun, AL, Lee, JD, Pahud, M & Shaer, O 2022, "I need to respond to this" - Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions. in CHIWORK 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work., 7, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, Association for Computing Machinery, 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work, CHIWORK 2022, Virtual, Online, United States, 6/8/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3533406.3533411

Ansah AA, Xing Y, Kamaraj AV, Tosca D, Boyle L, Iqbal S et al. "I need to respond to this" - Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions. In CHIWORK 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work. Association for Computing Machinery. 2022. 7. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/3533406.3533411

Ansah, Alberta A. ; Xing, Yilun ; Kamaraj, Amudha Varshini et al. / "I need to respond to this" - Contributions to group creativity in remote meetings with distractions. CHIWORK 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series).

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