DIVISION XII BUSINESS MEETINGS

Towards a mood-dashboard in business meetings

This paper explores the possibilities of a mood-dashboard for use in meetings. The research question defined is: How can a mood-dashboard for the purpose of recognising affective states in business meetings be defined and realised? A literature study has been done to answer this research question. First, the requirements on the mood dashboard have been set up. The result is that the mood-dashbo...

Videoconferencing in Business Meetings: An Affordance Perspective

This article investigates users’ perceptions of videoconferencing (VC) as a mode of communication in business meetings. The study demonstrates that affordance theory is a fruitful theoretical perspective for understanding what shapes users’ perceptions of how well VC works as a communication technology in business meetings. The article is based on observation and qualitative interviews with VC ...

Summer Meetings: Pacific Division, AAAS Affiliates, and Interciencia.

Developments in Practice XII: Knowledge-Enabling Business Processes

While in theory what an organization knows is fundamental to its success, in practice only a few companies have seen significant business results from their knowledge management (KM) initiatives. Therefore, many knowledge managers are rethinking how and where knowledge really adds value. Connecting knowledge activities to core business processes is slowly coming to be recognized as a second, an...

Supporting virtual meetings in the overall business context

Current distributed meeting support systems support meeting management, audio/video communication and application sharing. The modeling and the execution of meeting processes are usually not supported. Moreover, the overall business context of the meetings in an enterprise is missing. In this paper, a cooperative hypermedia system is presented, which provides jointly editable visual hypermedia ...