Supporting mood awareness in collaborative settings

Abstract

Affective aspects during collaboration can be exploited as triggers for reflection, yet current tools usually ignore these aspects. In this paper, we present a set of design choices to inform the design of systems towards enabling mood awareness in collaborative work settings like meetings or conferences. Design choices have served to outline and implement a collection of prototypes, including two input interfaces and three visualizations, which have been evaluated during an important project meeting over three days. Our results show that (a) the user acceptance of capturing mood is high (b) the aggregated mood values are related to the work process and (c) aggregated moods can influence the individual by creating awareness of others. Further discussion on the impact of the different design choices shows promising venues to improve mood awareness support. © 2011 ICST.