{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/use-a-quiet-drift-signal-before-interrupting-the-meeting",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0387",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Use a quiet drift signal before interrupting the meeting",
  "summary": "Not every detour needs a siren.",
  "kind": "heuristic",
  "body": "Keep the current meeting goal visible and use a low-friction signal when conversation appears to move away from it: a note, timer checkpoint, agenda marker or passive AI indicator. Let participants notice and self-correct before introducing an explicit interruption. Escalate only when drift persists or consumes material time.",
  "limits": [
    "The passive-versus-active tradeoff comes from a small technology-probe study; adapt the signal to team norms and privacy expectations."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-meeting-intentionality"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-B543A8D074A0755F"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "In a CHI 2025 technology-probe study, passive AI goal feedback helped participants maintain focus with less interruption than active reflection prompts.",
      "source_id": "RS-B543A8D074A0755F",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "The study involved 15 knowledge workers and prototype interfaces; do not generalize the relative effect size broadly.",
      "locator": "Abstract findings"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A discussion often wanders, but constant facilitator interruptions would damage useful flow."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "The passive-versus-active tradeoff comes from a small technology-probe study; adapt the signal to team norms and privacy expectations."
  ],
  "example": "Keep the decision question visible in the meeting notes and mark when discussion has spent ten minutes on an unrelated implementation detail.",
  "check": "The group can notice drift without the monitoring mechanism becoming the main interruption.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-B543A8D074A0755F",
      "title": "Are We On Track? AI-Assisted Active and Passive Goal Reflection During Meetings",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/are-we-on-track-ai-assisted-active-and-passive-goal-reflection-during-meetings/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0387",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0388",
      "type": "use_before",
      "url": "/knowledge/interrupt-for-reflection-only-when-the-drift-is-worth-the-interruption"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-DC3FB389E54F5C7A",
      "title": "Make meetings answer a goal instead of merely occupying a slot",
      "url": "/collections/make-meetings-answer-a-goal-instead-of-merely-occupying-a-slot"
    }
  ]
}