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The constant mirror: : Self-view and attitudes to virtual meetings

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Kristine M. KuhnAuthors Info & Claims

Volume 128, Issue C

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107110

Published: 01 March 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Users of modern web-conferencing platforms often view their own face as well as those of other attendees, which has been proposed as a contributing factor to negative attitudes towards virtual meetings. Two studies of people attending regular virtual meetings, one conducted with newly remote employees from a variety of organizations and one with business students shifted to remote learning, test this assumption. In both studies, the association between frequency of self-view during meetings and aversion to virtual meetings was contingent on a dispositional trait: the user's degree of public self-consciousness. In extending research on meeting satisfaction from in-person meetings to virtual ones, the results presented here indicate the need to consider specific technological features of virtual collaboration tools in conjunction with individual differences among users.

Highlights

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Self-view during web conferencing is widely believed to adversely affect user attitudes.

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Two studies of people regularly attending virtual meetings test this assumption.

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The apparent effect of self-view is moderated by trait public self-consciousness.

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Those low in this trait view virtual meetings more positively at greater frequency of self-view.

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Computers in Human Behavior Volume 128, Issue C

Mar 2022

558 pages

ISSN:0747-5632

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