Collaborative Research:FW-HTF-P: The Future of Virtual Teams: Enhancing Collaborative Creativity and Socio-cognitive wellbeing in Video-based Teams

协作研究：FW-HTF-P：虚拟团队的未来：增强基于视频的团队的协作创造力和社会认知福祉

• 批准号: 2222764
• 负责人: Jonali Baruah
• 金额: $ 9.87万
• 依托单位: Tarleton State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2222764&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; FW; HTF; Future

The emergence of novel virtual technologies is enabling a new era of connection between humans at a global level. This has led to a new wave of growth in the popularity of video-based teams, and it has become essential to develop productive, successful, and healthy human interactions using smart devices. Additionally, the migration to digital platforms that is further spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic has increased barriers to interactions, diversity, and inclusion. Due to the strong likelihood that videoconferencing (and thus virtual meetings) will continue for a long time after the pandemic ends, there is a need to develop more inclusive and equitable environments that support productivity and collaborative creativity in diverse virtual team contexts. The project will design a novel Smart Meeting Assistant (SMA) as a transformative solution to efficiently enhance video-based team innovation. The high-level goal of SMA will be to facilitate objectives such as: (i) collaborative creativity; (ii) convergent thinking by clustering of ideas from similar topics; (iii) feasibility of generated ideas through video-based meetings; (iv) reducing bias in video-based teams. The project team includes researchers from a rural-serving institution and a Hispanic-serving institution in Texas, and a mid-sized public institution in Colorado. Participants of pilot studies include students from diverse backgrounds and workers from real-world settings. This interdisciplinary project will use a mixed methodological approach to examine human interactions and features of virtual-meeting platforms that influence user’s social and cognitive wellbeing. Design of SMA paves the path for bringing the recent advances in deep learning and data analytics, supported by psychological sciences with a strong focus on human factors and ergonomics, to design virtual sociotechnical systems facilitating collaborative innovation without jeopardizing the social and cognitive wellbeing of video-based teams. First, the project team will develop a broader understanding of how people perceive creativity, wellbeing, and equity during virtual group interactions. Subsequently, an expanded pilot study will explore ways in which fundamental meeting features (e.g., speaking time, duration of meeting) and socio-cognitive variables (e.g., degree of knowledge sharing, satisfaction) statistically interact to predict collaborative creativity, wellbeing, and equity in diverse (gender and multicultural) video-based teams. Finally, the research team will carry out the foundational work to design a social-cognitive training module assisted by a Smart Meeting Assistant to facilitate collaborative creativity, wellbeing, and equity in the video-based environment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

新颖的虚拟技术的出现正在使人类之间在全球层面之间建立联系的新时代。这导致了基于视频的团队的普及新浪潮，并且使用智能设备开发产品，成功和健康的人类互动至关重要。此外，Covid-19的大流行进一步刺激的数字平台的迁移增加了相互作用，多样性和包容性的障碍。由于大流行结束后，视频会议（以及虚拟会议）将持续很长时间，因此有必要开发更具包容性和公平的环境来支持潜水员虚拟团队环境中的生产力和协作创造力。该项目将设计一个新颖的智能会议助理（SMA），作为有效增强基于视频的团队创新的变革解决方案。 SMA的高级目标是促进诸如：（i）协作创造力之类的目标； （ii）通过类似主题的思想聚类来融合思维； （iii）通过基于视频的会议的生成想法的可行性； （iv）减少基于视频的团队的偏见。该项目团队包括来自一家粗糙的机构和德克萨斯州西班牙裔服务机构的研究人员，以及科罗拉多州的中型公共机构。试点研究的参与者包括来自潜水员背景的学生和来自现实世界中的工人。这个跨学科项目将使用一种混合的方法论方法来检查影响用户社会和认知健康的虚拟会议平台的人类互动和特征。 SMA的设计铺平了为带来深入学习和数据分析的最新进展的道路，并得到了心理学科学的支持，他们强烈关注人为因素和人体工程学，设计虚拟社会技术系统，促进了协作创新，而促进了基于视频的团队的社会和认知福祉。首先，项目团队将对人们在虚拟群体互动期间如何看待人们如何看待创造力，福祉和平等。随后，一项扩展的试点研究将探讨基本的会议特征（例如演讲时间，会议时间）和社会认知变量（例如，知识共享程度，满意度）在统计上进行互动以预测潜水员（性别和多元文化）视频基于基于的协作创造力，福祉和公平性。最后，研究团队将进行基础工作，以设计社会认知培训模块，该模块在基于视频的环境中的智能会议助手的协助下，以促进协作的创造力，福祉和公平性。本奖奖反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过评估基金会的智力和更广泛的影响来通过评估来获得支持的珍贵的，该奖项是珍贵的。