MACS - Affective Conditioning System for Shared Working Environments

  • Authors:
  • Monica Sara Santos;Jeremy Pitt

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WI-IAT '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Open plan offices require people to share a common space, and violation of (implicitly or explicitly stated) social norms can cause instances of incivility. Left unaddressed, bad feeling can lead to diminished productivity and cooperation in a shared enterprise, and in the long-term might lead to more serious problems, such as conflict and aggression. We propose an anonymous online system for flagging violations of social norms can address potential incivilities/conflict in open-plan offices. This paper reports on progress on the development of such a system, which aims to integrate affective computing, event recognition, forgiveness, reputation and participatory adaptation of social norms, to restore the office to equilibrium after an episode of incivility.