EGI: A Multimodal Emotional AI Framework for Enhancing Scrum Master Real-time Self-Awareness
For Scrum Masters and meeting organizers, this work addresses the gap in emotion monitoring for key agile roles, but the evaluation is limited to simulated environments.
The paper proposes a multimodal AI framework integrating speech-to-text, intonation analysis, and emotion vocabulary matching to provide real-time emotional feedback for Scrum Masters, achieving a 10% WER in simulated meetings and improving emotion awareness.
While increasing research focuses on the emotional well-being of agile team members, a significant gap remains in emotion monitoring studies for Scrum Masters and meeting organizers, whose impact on team dynamics is crucial. This paper proposes a novel application integrating four carefully selected and recommended AI models to monitor the unconsciously expressed emotions of these key roles. This is achieved through: real- time transcription using a speech-to-text model; thresholding for intonation analysis to detect emotional cues in prosody; applying emotion-based vocabulary matching to identify sentiment in spoken content; and providing context-aware suggestions containing emotion keywords using an open-source, multi-module AI API. The system achieved an ASR word error rate WER of 10% in simulated meeting environments. Our evaluation shows that real- time feedback significantly improves emotion awareness during simulated agile meetings, providing Scrum Masters and meeting organizers with real-time and practical suggestions to help them quickly identify and minimize the expression of negative emotions, fostering more positive and effective team interactions.