Lehrende: Marvin Grabowski
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: SEM A&O Aufbau II
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 10 | 23
Anmeldegruppe: Psychologie - BA AO Aufbau K2
Weitere Informationen: LP: 3
Kommentare/ Inhalte: Meetings are an integral part of employees' everyday experiences, especially in remote and hybrid work settings. Employees of today’s organizations have between 11 and 15 meetings per average workweek. They meet to generate ideas, talk about problems, develop solutions, and make decisions. Research shows that what happens in workplace meetings has implications for individual employee attitudes and wellbeing, as well as for team and organizational functioning at large. Face-to-face (F2F) communication between humans without any mediating technology has evolved as the most natural and efficient means for communication. However, virtual or hybrid group meetings have received considerable attention as a widespread alternative to F2F communication, and we already observe a transition of many F2F group meetings to virtual forms and AI-based approaches.
Vorgehen: This seminar provides insights into the science of workplace meetings and a unique opportunity to experiment with novel meeting formats using immersive technology. You will gain an overview of the state of the art in meeting research and then move on to explore group meeting dynamics in various virtual settings, using a range of more or less immersive meeting technology. We will discuss future directions of workplace meetings, follow traces of the metaverse, highlight opportunities and risks and categorize suitable research methods. Using an interaction process lens, you will analyze remote, hybrid immersive, and fully immersive meeting interactions (with Spatial.IO technology). You will reflect on your own meeting experiences in these various settings and present your findings in a written research report (team effort). Finally, you can reflect your own meeting experiences and conclude findings. Key participation requirements: (1) Cover the required reading in your own time (2) Participate in (hybrid) immersive virtual team meetings (3) Observe and analyze the group dynamics in another team’s meetings, including fully immersive, hybrid, and non-immersive setups (4) Present your findings in a short research summary *Couse language: English and German (if all students are native German speakers; otherwise, the entire course will be in English
Literatur: Will be announced at the beginning of the seminar. All literature will be in English.
