Towards a metaverse workspace: opportunities, challenges, and design implications

H Park, D Ahn, J Lee - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Both enterprises and their employees have globally experienced remote work at an
unprecedented scale since the outbreak of COVID-19. As the pandemic becomes less of a …

Hybrid workplace: current status, positives, negatives, challenges, and team learning

EO Peprah - The Learning Organization, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose This study aims to find out if organizations are still practicing a hybrid workplace
arrangement after COVID-19 ease of restrictions, determine the positive and negative sides …

Sensing wellbeing in the workplace, why and for whom? envisioning impacts with organizational stakeholders

A Kawakami, S Chowdhary, ST Iqbal, QV Liao… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the heightened digitization of the workplace, alongside the rise of remote and hybrid
work prompted by the pandemic, there is growing corporate interest in using passive …

Meeting (the) pandemic: Videoconferencing fatigue and evolving tensions of sociality in enterprise video meetings during COVID-19

R Bergmann, S Rintel, N Baym, A Sarkar… - Computer Supported …, 2023 - Springer
When COVID-19 led to mandatory working from home, significant blind spots in supporting
the sociality of working life—in the moment and over time—were revealed in enterprise …

Detecting social contexts from mobile sensing indicators in virtual interactions with socially anxious individuals

Z Wang, MA Larrazabal, M Rucker, ER Toner… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Mobile sensing is a ubiquitous and useful tool to make inferences about individuals' mental
health based on physiology and behavior patterns. Along with sensing features directly …

Enabling and constraining factors of remote informal communication: a socio-technical systems perspective

V Begemann, L Handke… - Journal of Computer …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Informal interactions are vital in daily workplace communication, shaping performance, well-
being, collaboration, and overall organizational functioning. However, as the ongoing trends …

Video conferencing tools: Comparative study of the experiences of screen reader users and the development of more inclusive design guidelines

B Leporini, M Buzzi, M Hersh - ACM Transactions on Accessible …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Since the first lockdown in 2020, video conferencing tools have become increasingly
important for employment, education, and social interaction, making them essential tools in …

Remote persons are closer than they appear: home, team and a lockdown

M Augstein, T Neumayr, J Schönböck… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Since 2020, worldwide COVID-19-related lockdowns have led to a rapid increase of remote
collaboration, particularly in the domain of knowledge work. This has undoubtedly brought …

[HTML][HTML] Analysing the public's beliefs, emotions and sentiments towards Metaverse workplace: A big-data qualitative inquiry

AB Mahmoud - Acta Psychologica, 2024 - Elsevier
The Metaverse is gaining attention as a potential future workplace, and advancements in
VR/AR technologies are set to revolutionise how we work and collaborate. Extensive …

Seeing the faces is so important—Experiences from online team meetings on commercial virtual reality platforms

M Bonfert, AV Reinschluessel, S Putze, Y Lai… - Frontiers in Virtual …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
During the COVID-19 pandemic, online meetings became common for daily teamwork in the
home office. To understand the opportunities and challenges of meeting in virtual reality …