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Chinmay Kulkarni
@chinmay
Thank you to the passionate team
@SemanticScholar
for hosting my talk today on ideas to create "enabling environments" for inclusive, collaborative science (inspired by
@JoelChan86
&
@andy_matuschak
) And thank you to
@PranavKhadpe
, who did the research behind the talk :)
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Pranav Khadpe
@PranavKhadpe
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Teaming is powerful; it widens the pool of perspectives. Yet teams often fail to capitalize on members’ diverse perspectives- expressing and engaging with conflicting perspectives is hard. Our #CSCW2022 paper explores interventions to encourage perspective-taking in ad-hoc teams.
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Screenshot of the paper. The paper is titled "Empathosphere: Promoting Constructive Communication in Ad-hoc Virtual Teams through Perspective-taking Spaces". Authored by Pranav Khadpe, Chinmay Kulkarni and Geoff Kaufman. The abstract reads: When members of ad-hoc virtual teams need to collectively ideate or deliberate, they often fail to engage with each others' perspectives in a constructive manner. At best, this leads to sub-optimal outcomes and, at worst, it can cause conflicts that lead to teams not wanting to continue working together. Prior work has attempted to facilitate constructive communication by highlighting problematic communication patterns and nudging teams to alter interaction norms. However, these approaches achieve limited success because they fail to acknowledge two social barriers: (1) it is hard to reset team norms mid-interaction, and (2) corrective nudges have limited utility unless team members believe it is safe to voice their opinion and (continued).
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