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Two Sides to Every Story: Exploring Hybrid Design Teams' Perceptions of Psychological Safety on Slack
Marjan Naghshbandi, Sharon Ferguson, Alison Olechowski
While the unique challenges of hybrid work can compromise collaboration and team dynamics, hybrid teams can thrive with well-informed strategies and tools that nurture interpersona…
Social Capital and Persistence in Computer Science of Google's Computer Science Summer Institute (CSSI) Students
Marjan Naghshbandi, Sharon Ferguson, Alison Olechowski
While a lucrative and growing field, low levels of gender and racial diversity in CS remain prevalent. Education and workforce support programs with the intention to promote underr…
No Risk, No Reward: Towards An Automated Measure of Psychological Safety from Online Communication
Sharon Ferguson, Georgia Van de Zande, Alison Olechowski
The data created from virtual communication platforms presents the opportunity to explore automated measures for monitoring team performance. In this work, we explore one important…
Circle Back Next Week: The Effect of Meeting-Free Weeks on Distributed Workers' Unstructured Time and Attention Negotiation
Sharon Ferguson, Michael Massimi
While distributed workers rely on scheduled meetings for coordination and collaboration, these meetings can also challenge their ability to focus. Protecting worker focus has been…
"Just a little bit on the outside for the whole time": Social belonging confidence and the persistence of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence students
Katherine Mao, Sharon Ferguson, James Magarian +1
The growing field of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) presents a unique and unexplored case within persistence research, meaning it is unclear how past findin…
Advancing a Model of Students' Intentional Persistence in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Sharon Ferguson, Katherine Mao, James Magarian +1
Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are powering the applications we use, the decisions we make, and the decisions made about us. We have seen numerous examples…