Mood-meter: throughout the meeting, participants can anonymously register their positive or negative mood. If the average mood drops below a given threshold, the application warns the facilitator/everyone in the group that something is going wrong. A more generic version of this function would be a form of continuous voting, for example for taking a break (whoever would welcome a break, registers this and when a certain threshold is reached, people are notified about that).
Benefits:
- Helps to avoid situations where the majority of the group is unhappy with the ongoing activity but everyone remains quiet and tags along because they believe everyone else is happy (the so called Abilene paradox).