Meetings are the fuel of organizations' productivity. At times, however, they are perceived as wasteful vaccums that deplete employee morale and productivity. Current meeting tools, to a great extent, have simplified and augmented the ways meetings are conducted by enabling participants to ``get things done'' and experience a comfortable physical environment. However, an important yet less explored element of these tools' design space is that of psychological safety -- the extent to which participants feel listened to, or motivated to be part of a meeting. We argue that an interdisciplinary approach would benefit the creation of new tools designed for retrofitting meetings for psychological safety. This approach comes with not only research opportunities -- ranging from sensing to modeling to user interface design -- but also challenges -- ranging from privacy to workplace surveillance.
翻译:会议是组织生产力的燃料。但有时,会议被视为浪费的空洞,消耗了雇员的士气和生产力。目前的会议工具在很大程度上简化和扩大了会议的方式,使与会者能够“做事情”并体验舒适的物理环境。然而,这些工具设计空间的一个重要但不太探索的因素是心理安全,即与会者在多大程度上感到倾听,或愿意参加一次会议。我们认为,跨学科方法将有利于创造旨在改造会议以促进心理安全的新工具。这种方法不仅带来研究机会,从感测到建模到用户界面设计,还有从隐私到工作场所监视等挑战。