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OTTRS Speaker Series: “Understanding and Supporting Hybrid Meetings”

Research Talks/Events

Date/Time: Friday, May 16, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Location: Virtual


UMD students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends—join us for the OTTRS Speaker Series. (Registration Required)


Abstract:

Since the COVID era, team meetings and larger work gatherings have increasingly used a hybrid format in which some attendees are together in a local room while others connect remotely. In earlier research work, this hybrid meeting format has been shown to raise many challenges for remote attendees, including lower visibility and issues gaining the conversational floor. Recently, my students and I have been revisiting this topic, using ethnographic research to understand the dynamics of hybrid team meetings and colloquia. We have also been prototyping and testing new tools to improve these dynamics. In this talk, I’ll (a) provide an overview of the earlier findings on hybrid meetings, (b) present our ethnographic findings, and (c) describe some of our hybrid meeting prototypes and our user study results.

Bio:

Susan R. Fussell

Susan R. Fussell is a Professor in the Department of Information Science and Department of Communication at Cornell University. She received her BS degree in psychology and sociology from Tufts University, and her Ph.D. in social and cognitive psychology from Columbia University. She is a member of the CHI Academy and the Chair-Elect of the CSCW Steering Committee. Dr. Fussell’s primary interests lie in the areas of computer-supported cooperative work and computer-mediated communication. Her current projects focus on intercultural and multilingual communication, online communication, human-AI interaction, and tools to promote wellbeing.

Speaker(s): Professor Susan R. Fussell, Department of Information Science and Department of Communication, Cornell University

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