Developing AI-Enabled Teamwork Support

AI-enabled support for human-human teamwork

Pulling from theories of successful collaboration in Management and Pyschology, SHARE Lab aims to measure these constructs from a team’s digital trace data (e.g., Slack messages, Zoom transcripts) to predict when they might need a bit of help. Then, our collaboration technology can provide research-backed interventions, exactly where and when they are needed.

Publications

  1. Communication patterns in engineering enterprise social networks: an exploratory analysis using short text topic modelling
    Sharon A Ferguson, Kathy Cheng, Lauren Adolphe, and 3 more authors
    Design Science, 2022
  2. Are We Equal Online?: An Investigation of Gendered Language Patterns and Message Engagement on Enterprise Communication Platforms
    Sharon A Ferguson and Alison Olechowski
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2023
  3. Let’s take this offline: a thematic analysis of virtual conflict in hybrid collaborative design teams
    Meagan Flus, Sharon Ferguson, and Alison Olechowski
    Proceedings of the Design Society, 2023
  4. No risk, no reward: Towards an automated measure of psychological safety from online communication
    Sharon A Ferguson, Georgia Zande, and Alison Olechowski
    In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024
  5. Measuring gendered communication patterns on enterprise communication platforms
    Sharon Ferguson and Alison Olechowski
    In Companion Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2023
  6. Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring Hybrid Design Teams’ Perceptions of Psychological Safety on Slack
    Marjan Naghshbandi, Sharon Ferguson, and Alison Olechowski
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 2025