While meetings take up a significant part of the workday, participants often perceive them as poor and unproductive. With the surge in videoconferencing meetings for work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees experienced that videoconferencing can even aggravate negative experiences in meetings. Past research has shown that the level of engagement during meetings is a crucial aspect of meeting a success. While there have been some attempts towards utilizing post-analysis feedback, there is little effort towards real-time support to improve engagement. This research explores the development of a visual support system for automated, real-time feedback on team communication behavior during online meetings. We present a novel, fully working visual support system that was evaluated with positive results. This study outlines the step-wise development of the method. We collected a range of qualitative feedback measures to understand better how users perceive the visual support system. First, we collected qualitative feedback from participants and eye-tracking data (n = 4) to evaluate four visualization approaches. The second step evaluated the best-performing visualization by a user study with participants (N = 72) working in groups of four on a collaborative problem-solving task. Users give the tool good scores on a seven-point Likert scale: perceived usefulness (4.8), ease of understanding (5.6), and perceived precision (5.1). Our results indicate that our novel system can enhance the quality of video conferencing through real-time visual support.
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Schröder, K., & Kohl, S. (2022). ViCon - Towards Understanding Visual Support Systems in Collaborative Video Conferencing. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 13319 LNCS, pp. 278–288). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05890-5_22
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