Office Agents: Personal Office Vitality Sensors with Intent

Stamhuis, Sjoerd; Brombacher, Hans; Vos, Steven; Lallemand, Carine

doi:10.1145/3411763.3451559

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“…This may be due to the social acceptability of such devices. However, in business settings, peripherals and other office equipments can provide ubiquitous access to data that can be used to infer one’s mental states (e.g., [ 67 , 68 ]) and potentially deliver stress-mitigating interventions.…”

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From Monitoring to Assisting: A Systematic Review towards Healthier Workplaces

Lopes

Rodrigues

Cabral

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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Long-term stress is associated with a decline in global health, affecting social, intellectual, and economic development alike. Although comprehensive action plans have been implemented to provide people access to mental health services and promote mental well-being, employees’ mental health generally takes second place to productivity and profit in business settings. This review paper offers an overview of the current interactive approaches used for relieving work-related stress associated with mental health. Results from the 38 included studies show that affective computing is used mainly for monitoring purposes and is usually combined with tangible interfaces that collect workers’ physiological changes. Although the ability to sense and predict employees’ affective states can potentially improve mental health in the workplace, there is a substantial disparity between monitoring one’s health and the delivery of practical interventions to mitigate stress found in the surveyed studies. Designing systems that capitalize on embodied interaction principles is paramount, especially in the post-pandemic context, as the concepts of physical and mental safety take on new meanings that must be consciously and carefully addressed, particularly in workplace settings. Finally, this paper highlights the main design implications for the effective implementation of interfaces to help mitigate stress in the workplace.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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From Monitoring to Assisting: A Systematic Review towards Healthier Workplaces

Lopes

Rodrigues

Cabral

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…A deeper refection on the components to add to the sensor kit to really support open-endedness in explorations -without being overwhelmingly complex -is necessary. On this topic, the provocative Ofce Agents kit [35] researched which sensor (out of 5 provided) was more meaningful to ofce workers by looking at which bossy agents they would obey. Similar sensor kits or open-ended physical computing devices [14,19,31,37] designed for other application areas can be used as inspiration.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Which kinds of tools and visualizations do ofce workers need to be able to answer their questions? Is the physicalization of data [21] similar to Stamhuis et al [35] a way to go to trigger meaningful data explorations? Could people construct their own physicalizations to engage more deeply with their data [20,36], possibly by using cost-efcient and fun material to do so [28]?…”

Section: Limitations and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Habilyzer: Empowering Office Workers to Investigate their Working Habits using an Open-Ended Sensor Kit

Bussel

Heuvel

Lallemand

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

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Ofce work presents health and wellbeing challenges, triggered by unhealthy working habits or environmental factors. While technologies for vitality in the ofce context gain popularity, they are often solution-focused and fall short in acknowledging personal needs. Building on approaches from personal informatics, we see value in opening up the design space of tracking and sensing technologies for ofce workers. We designed and deployed an open-ended sensor kit and conducted two complementary studies to investigate the value of empowering ofce workers to investigate their own working habits. Findings show that Habilyzer triggers curiosity about working habits, and wireless sensors contribute to inquire into those habits, possibly supported by additional tools. We contribute new insights into how an open-ended sensor kit can be designed to support self-tracking practices and underlying refections in the underexplored context of ofce work. It is an alternative approach to workplace vitality, moving from solution-oriented technologies to inquiry-enabling tools.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial International 4.0 License.

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“…However, these interventions rely on a single data source, not considering several data sources. An intervention using multiple data sources is seen in Ofce Agents [56]. This artifact collects work (productivity), environmental (light, sound and air quality) and personal (physical activity) related data.…”

Section: Ofce Vitality Design Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

“…physical activity, sedentary behavior [7,38,40] and work level (e.g. productivity [8,56]), which infuences the work performance, well-being and overall ofce vitality of ofce workers. Studies that combine these data sources have indicated associations between ofce temperature and physical activity [64], mental health and environmental factors (noise, light and temperature) [47] or computer interaction, heart-, sleep-, and physical activity-related data [75].…”

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SensorBadge: An Exploratory Study of an Ego-centric Wearable Sensor System for Healthy Office Environments

Brombacher

Houben

Vos

2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Sensing technology is increasingly used to collect data about the workplace to provide insights into building performance and work activities. While such systems provide meaningful insights, they are a 'black box' in nature considering people as passive data subjects with no input into the sensing and data collection process. We propose a human-data interaction approach where human workers can opt-in using an ego-centric sensor platform -SensorBadge -that provides tools to collect and inspect personal ofce data. We describe a feld exploration of Sensorbadge to understand the wearability, usability, and usefulness of ego-centric data collection. Our results show that ofce sensing systems should ft seamlessly in the ofce routine of individuals, without asking for extra efort or creating conficts with work patterns. Data should be classifed and presented against a frame of reference for comparison and visualized to create understandable and actionable representations with personal control of their ofce environment. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Mobile devices; Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing.

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Office Agents: Personal Office Vitality Sensors with Intent

Cited by 11 publications

References 13 publications

From Monitoring to Assisting: A Systematic Review towards Healthier Workplaces

From Monitoring to Assisting: A Systematic Review towards Healthier Workplaces

Habilyzer: Empowering Office Workers to Investigate their Working Habits using an Open-Ended Sensor Kit

SensorBadge: An Exploratory Study of an Ego-centric Wearable Sensor System for Healthy Office Environments

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