Gaming for Meaningful Interactions in Teleworking Lessons Learned during the COVID-19 Pandemic from Integrating Gaming in Virtual Meetings

Kleiman, Fernando; Meijer, Sebastiaan; Janssen, Marijn

doi:10.1145/3416308

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“…This is also supported by Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) [35]. The increased social bonding during the COVID-19 place confinement [36][37][38] may prompt people to take action and get vaccinated if they perceive the virus to be a serious threat [39]. On the other hand, it is also possible that social bonding engagement might promote information sharing about perceived threats of the COVID-19 vaccines leading to vaccine hesitancy.…”

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Social Bonding and Public Trust/Distrust in COVID-19 Vaccines

Ramkissoon

2021

Sustainability

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been a growing concern. The pandemic has proved to be very complicated with the mutated virus. The Delta variant is contributing to a surge of cases across the globe. Vaccine hesitancy can be socially contagious, requiring more stringent efforts from policy makers and health professionals in promoting vaccine uptake. Some evidence shows that vaccine acceptance appears to have played an integral role in successfully controlling the pandemic. Vaccination acceptance, however, demands that the public has a good understanding of the vaccine’s benefits in promoting healthier societies and people’s quality of life. Unclear COVID-19 vaccine information can lead to distrust in vaccines and vaccine hesitancy. It is of paramount importance to communicate clear and unbiased vaccine information to the public to encourage vaccine uptake. Word of mouth communication remains important to further promote COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the community. This short paper discusses the role of social bonds and public trust/distrust and word of mouth communication in vaccine decision making.

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Social Bonding and Public Trust/Distrust in COVID-19 Vaccines

Ramkissoon

2021

Sustainability

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“…Similar to surgery and medica tasks, industrial and physical tasks [3], [18], [19], [20] also typically involve AS and SC roles. Lastly, in social and gaming [21], [22], [23] tasks, all three intermediate roles addressed where there exist various solutions to carry out such tasks.…”

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Analysis of Intermediary Roles and Technical Components for Smartglass-Assisted Interactive Remote Collaboration

Yoon¹,

Kim²,

Oh³

et al. 2021

J Multimed Inf Syst

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Recent advances in Internet-of-Things and wearable computing have established computationally sufficient infrastructure to remove the barriers of physical locations. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of remote collaboration, work-from-home, teleconferencing, online education, digital twin, and metaverse enriched with various configurations of augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and extended reality. Beyond specialized niche wearable applications in the medical and entertainment domains, we aim to identify the underlying characteristics of smartglass-enabled killer applications for everyday use. In this paper, we analyze intermediary roles in remote collaboration consisting of authoritative supervisors, synergetic collaborators, and speculative explorers. We also propose technical components for smartglass-assisted interactive remote collaboration composed of personal tracking, teleconference, and interaction components. More specifically, the application tasks of each intermediary role and objectives of three functional components are defined and elaborated.

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“…Despite a large body of research on remote work and communication technologies that attempt to support remote collaboration [33,37,49] and recent discussions around the impact of the pandemic on remote work [63], few studies have considered how remote work affects interaction patterns among workers and how workers' perceptions of their remote colleagues might vary depending on the social connectivity with one another. Recent studies revealed that the pandemic has harmed remote workers' productivity [21,44,55], well-being [55], the social connection among remote collaborators [20,32], and the communication process when working from home [26,56]. However, what is not yet clear is the impact of specific tie strength, which is an important [63] but often overlooked social factor, on remote workers' perceptions when all communication becomes mediated by technology during work from home (WFH).…”

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Distance Matters to Weak Ties

Yang

Yamashita

Kuzuoka

et al. 2022

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Workers tend to make inferences about one another's commitment and dedication to work depending on what cues are available to them, affecting worker relationships and collaboration outcomes. In this work, we investigate how remote work affects workers' perceptions of their colleagues with different levels of social connectivity, commonly referred to as strong ties and weak ties. When working remotely, workers' perceptions of weak ties may suffer due to the lack of in-person interaction. On the other hand, workers' inferences about their strong ties may also be impacted by losing richer communication cues, even though they had more connections with their strong ties than weak ties. This study explores how remote workers make inferences about engagement levels of and willingness to collaborate with weak ties compared to strong ties. We used a mixed-methods approach involving survey data, experience sampling, and in-depth interviews with 20 workers from different companies in Taiwan. Results showed that workers depended on one-on-one synchronous tools to infer the engagement level of strong ties but used group-based communication tools to infer the engagement level of weak ties. Interestingly, the absence of cues in remote workplaces exacerbated prior impressions formed in the physical office. Furthermore, remote work led workers to develop polarized perceptions of their respective ties. We discuss how characteristics of computer-mediated communication tools and interaction types interplay to affect workers' perceptions of remote colleagues and identify design opportunities for helping remote workers maintain awareness of weak ties.

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Gaming for Meaningful Interactions in Teleworking Lessons Learned during the COVID-19 Pandemic from Integrating Gaming in Virtual Meetings

Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Social Bonding and Public Trust/Distrust in COVID-19 Vaccines

Social Bonding and Public Trust/Distrust in COVID-19 Vaccines

Analysis of Intermediary Roles and Technical Components for Smartglass-Assisted Interactive Remote Collaboration

Distance Matters to Weak Ties

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