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Low Engagement As a Deliberate Practice of Remote Participants in Video Meetings

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Anastasia Kuzminykh,

Sean RintelAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3383080

Published: 25 April 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Many employees who join work video meetings remotely are frustrated by technological constraints on their engagement. While we should seek to deepen engagement for those who want it, in this paper we explore how low engagement by remote employees in video meetings can also be a social choice. Employees don't always need to engage fully in all or part of a meeting, and they use the technology to help communicate that choice. We argue that video meeting systems should expand the spectrum of engagement levels for remote meeting participants.

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Low Engagement As a Deliberate Practice of Remote Participants in Video Meetings
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI theory, concepts and models

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CHI EA '20: Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/3334480

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