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  • Video conferencing platforms have a boosted usage now.

  • It brings benefits to workplace teams in terms of travel requirement, space issues, and scheduling difficulties. but can also have dire impact on meeting effectiveness and inclusivity.

  • We explore how to make meetings more inclusive and effective through intelligent feedback dashboard.

  • First, we conducted a requirement analysis study collecting data from actual workplace employees.

  • We found that attendees might perceive a meeting to be better based on meeting behaviors, such as more participation.

  • Next, we categorize the challenges attendees face in remote meetings.

  • From there, we identified which challenges we could address through a feedback dashboard.

  • And finally, we explored what concerns employees might have regarding such a feedback system.

  • Participants expressed concerns regarding how accurate the AI system could be, and with whom the feedback data might be shared.

  • In the second phase, we conducted a longitudinal study with actual workplace teams.

  • The teams had recurrent meetings of our Microsoft Teams. A custom bot joined each meeting and recorded it.

  • From video, the facial signals provided feedback features, such as head nod, leading to consensus measurement.

  • From audio, the vocal activity provided features such as turn taking and participation.

  • Audio was also processed to create meeting transcript, which was used for features such as question detection.

  • Using the actual meeting data, we processed and visualized those features and created two dashboard prototypes for each individual meeting attendee.

  • Initially, there were 13 features in the wireframe prototype.

  • On one side, we have the summarized feedback, and the temporal feedback were shown on the right side.

  • For example, summarize score of talk time.

  • we created a list of suggestive feedback to be shown with the corresponding summarized score.

  • After the fourth week, participants reviewed the interactive dashboard. It had more information visibility and interactive functionalities.

  • For example, hovering would reveal more insights, suggests who asked a question, and what was being asked.

  • Clicking on an event would play the meeting recording of that timestamp helping people recollect that part of the discussion.

  • Participant could successfully identify when consensus was being reached and when more questions were being asked.

  • Suggestive feedback was useful nudging participants towards the desired behavior for the future.

  • Meeting history over the time was useful to identify changes in behavior patterns over a long term of meetings.

  • Our findings show that such a feedback dashboard can be effective in making meeting behavior more transparent for an individual.

  • We provide design suggestions for future systems incorporating similar kinds of effective and actionable highlights for video conferencing based meetings to make teams more effective and inclusive.

Video conferencing platforms have a boosted usage now.

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