Below is an excerpt from an article featuring NULab faculty Christoph Riedl and his recent research on AI.
“The effectiveness of teamwork in professional and academic environments typically depends on various factors, including communication and coordinated attention. In this context, collective attention entails the ability of team members to cooperatively focus on the task at hand, optimally dividing it into subtasks and alternating their efforts to complete it as efficiently as possible.
Researchers at Northeastern University recently carried out a study exploring whether the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI)-based virtual assistants within a team of humans influences the team’s collective attention. Their findings, pre-published on arXiv, suggest that the use of AI-based tools in a collaborating group can significantly influence what is discussed by team-members and how it is discussed.
‘AI is going to play an increasingly large role in how we are going to work in the future,’ Christoph Riedl, co-author of the paper, told Tech Xplore. ‘Research has been investigating dyads of one human working with one AI system for a while. Yet less research has looked at how entire teams will work with an AI system.'”
You can read the full article on Tech Xplore here: “How working with AI impacts the collective attention of teams“
