ITeG-Ringvorlesung "An Extra Brain in the Room: Enhancing Brainstorming with a Digital Teammate"

Beschreibung

In der ITeG-Ringvorlesung "Digitale Gesellschaft - eine Gestaltungsaufgabe" wird am 12. Februar 2025 Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schwabe Einblicke geben zum Thema "An Extra Brain in the Room: Enhancing Brainstorming with a Digital Teammate".

Gerhard Schwabe has been a full professor at the University of Zurich since 2002. His research interests focus on the intersection of collaborative technologies and information management. He has published in major IS conferences, IS journals, and computer science conferences (like CHI, CSCW, and ICSE). Currently, his research interests focus on Generative AI applications, Human AI collaboration, human drone collaboration, and government as a platform. He is currently a senior editor of ISJ and JIT and president of the Swiss Chapter of the AIS.

Zusammenfassung seines Vortrags:

We explore the possibility to add a digital teammate into Brainstorming sessions. While in prior research digital assistants have supported human brainstorming participants, we include the digital teammate as autonomous participant. In this talk, I will present the challenges into setting up the digital teammate and controlling its behavior, so that it becomes an accepted productive participant. We will furthermore offer insights from evaluations. We propose ' AI-Thinklets' as a new approach to structure and control hybrid human-AI Teams. This research has been conducted in close collaboration with XLeap, who has just included the Generative-AI-based digital agent into their collaboration suite.