Smart IoT desk for personalizing indoor environmental conditions

Aryal, Ashrant; Anselmo, Francesco; Becerik-Gerber, Burçin

doi:10.1145/3277593.3277614

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“…With past literature focusing on conventional office spaces (Alavi et al, 2017;Alavi et al, 2018b), productivity or stress (Alonso et al, 2008;Aryal et al, 2018;Clear et al, 2018;Chodan et al, 2019); there are many potentials for ambient technology in the domestic workplace. The main contribution of this work is to establish knowledge of how remote home workers engage with the workplace at home, what aspects are important for their wellbeing, and what types of ambient feedback would be more appropriate for supporting them.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…New directions in ambient spaces research emphasize on engaging the occupants through wearable-mediated feedback (Zhong et al, 2020) and address contextual privacy through prioritizing passive data collection (Aryal et al, 2018). Recommendations and predictions of behavior of the building occupants (Human -AI interaction) are discussed in a small number of recent works (Alavi et al, 2016;Zhong et al, 2020), showing much potential while raising ethical considerations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This has particularly come to the fore during the global COVID-19 pandemic, which has both forced people to work from home, but also increased discussion of the possible values of home-working, post-pandemic (Khazan, 2020). The majority of past research on workplaces focuses on office buildings (Fortmann et al, 2013;Mark et al, 2015;Aryal et al, 2018;Alavi et al, 2018b;Clear et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2021). There have been extensive studies concerning the potential role of digital technology in supporting the well-being of office workers (see for example, Ludden and Meekhof, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A breadth of research has established relationships between physical and environmental factors, and the wellbeing and productivity of employees in office spaces using sensory devices (Alavi et al, 2017;Snow et al, 2017;Aryal et al, 2018;Clear et al, 2018;Constantinides et al, 2020;Lee et al, 2021). Some works study the impact of static spatial features on social interactions and social behavior in the workplace (Mark et al, 2014;Mark et al, 2015;Alavi et al, 2018b).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…More recently, a growing body of work is concerned with indoor climate in the office spaces (Alavi et al, 2017;Aryal et al, 2018;Constantinides et al, 2020), it's impact on productivity and wellbeing, and the most appropriate ways to sense, communicate and engage the building occupants in co-shaping it (Snow et al, 2017;Clear et al, 2018;Lee et al, 2021). Alavi et al (2017) addressed the multidimensional issue of comfort in the workplace through Comfortbox -a sensing physical display of environmental data, engaging the office space occupants in gaining awareness on their embodied comfort.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Understanding the Experiences of Remote Workers: Opportunities for Ambient Workspaces at Home

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et al. 2021

Front. Comput. Sci.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many to work remotely from home, collaborating solely through digital technologies, a growing population of remote home workers are faced with profound wellbeing challenges. Passive sensing devices and ambient feedback have great potential to support the wellbeing of the remote workers, but there is a lack of background and understanding of the domestic workplace in terms of physical and affective dimensions and challenges to wellbeing. There are profound research gaps on wellbeing in the domestic workplace, with the current push for remote home and hybrid working making this topic timely. To address these gaps and shape a starting point for an “ambient workspaces” agenda, we conducted an exploratory study to map physical and affective aspects of working from home. The study involved both qualitative and quantitative measures of occupant experience, including sensor wristbands, and a custom web application for self-reporting mood and aspects of the environment. It included 13 participants for a period of 4 weeks, during a period of exclusive home working. Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis, our study addresses wellbeing challenges of the domestic workplace, establishes correlations between mood and physical aspects, and discusses the impact of feedback mechanisms in the domestic workplace on the behavior of remote workers. Insights from these observations are then used to inform a future design agenda for ambient technologies that supports the wellbeing of remote workers; addressing the design opportunities for ambient interventions in domestic workspaces. This work offers three contributions: 1) qualitatively and quantitatively informed understandings of the experiences of home-workers; 2) a future design agenda for “ambient home workspaces”; and 3) we propose three design concepts for ambient feedback and human–AI interactions in the built environment, to illustrate the utility of the design agenda.

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