On February 18th, Prof. Mädche gave a lecture at the Research Group in Information Systems (GReSI) at HEC Montreal, Canada. In his talk he presented insights from current research focusing on multitasking in remote meetings done in collaboration with Dr. Julia Seitz and Chiara Krisam in the context of the DFG-funded KD2School.  

Multitasking during remote meetings is highly prevalent, as meeting participants frequently divide their attention between meeting-related and -unrelated activities, such as responding to emails.  At the same time, recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have accelerated the rise of agentic remote meeting systems (e.g. in the form of AI-based meeting summaries) further reshaping the behavior of participants in remote meetings. Results from a series of empirical studies investigating the phenomena of multitasking in traditional and AI-powered remote meetings were presented and discussed. In this studies, an emphasis is placed on exploring the interplay between cognitive load, flow, and instrumental and humanistic outcomes using self-reported and behavioral data, and biosignals using electrocardiography (ECG) and eye-tracking collected under controlled conditions in the KD2Lab.