Technologies for healthy work

Haliburton, Luke; Schmidt, Albrecht

doi:10.1145/3386391

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“…We have even seen the creation of a new phobia, Nomophobia, which is the fear of being without a mobile phone [53]. Modern mobile technologies are commonly designed specifcally to be engaging [14] as a consequence of the attention economy [10]. This phenomena is related to digital stress, which is stress that results from interactions with digital technologies [40].…”

Section: Background and Related Work 21 Digital Wellbeingmentioning

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MindPhone: Mindful Reflection at Unlock Can Reduce Absentminded Smartphone Use

Terzimehić

Haliburton

Greiner

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Section: Background and Related Work 21 Digital Wellbeingmentioning

confidence: 99%

MindPhone: Mindful Reflection at Unlock Can Reduce Absentminded Smartphone Use

Terzimehić

Haliburton

Greiner

et al. 2022

Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Digital transformations have contributed to eliminating physical movement in the workplace (Choi et al, 2016;Cambo et al, 2017;Brombacher et al, 2020;Damen et al, 2020) through enhancing connectivity between remote workers (Haliburton and Schmidt, 2020), and intensifying technologymediated collaboration (Deloitte LLP, 2018;Haliburton and Schmidt, 2020). The use of such collaborating technologies does not mediate the benefits of informal, face-to-face interaction, as well as physical activity for the wellbeing of the remote workers (Haliburton and Schmidt, 2020). Lack of physical activity has resulted in ongoing health problems amongst connected remote workers, including chronic mental health issues (Chodan et al, 2019) and physiological problems (Haliburton and Schmidt, 2020).…”

Section: The Remote Worker and Wellbeing Challengesmentioning

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“…The use of such collaborating technologies does not mediate the benefits of informal, face-to-face interaction, as well as physical activity for the wellbeing of the remote workers (Haliburton and Schmidt, 2020). Lack of physical activity has resulted in ongoing health problems amongst connected remote workers, including chronic mental health issues (Chodan et al, 2019) and physiological problems (Haliburton and Schmidt, 2020). Past work in HCI has outlined some of these issues with a particular emphasis on work stress (Alonso et al, 2008;Chodan et al, 2019), low productivity and motivation (Mark et al, 2015;Epstein et al, 2016), leaving the home office broadly unexplored.…”

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“…On-thespot wearable notifications for physical activity were successful motivators during the study, but it is unknown if this resulted in further changes in routines of the participants after the end of it. Physical activity-such as stretching breaks, cycling breaks, and particularly walking -is beneficial for physical and mental wellbeing (Haliburton and Schmidt, 2020), but it is not required or encouraged in remote work. The question is how to introduce physical movement as a core element of remote work, taking advantage of the success of wearable -mediated feedback (Gouveia et al, 2016).…”

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

Margariti

Ali

Grave

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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“…We have optimised the modern workplace towards minimising movement and physical activity with the aim of making work easier [34]. Over time, we have developed increasingly sophisticated digital methods of accomplishing nearly every work-related task.…”

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Charting the Path: Requirements and Constraints for Technology-Supported Walking Meetings

Haliburton

Woźniak

Schmidt

et al. 2021

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Traditional meetings involve extensive sitting, which negatively impacts the health of attendees. Understanding how technology can facilitate integrating physical activity into the workplace, such as in walking meetings, is vital to improving workplace wellbeing. To that end, we applied a mixed-method approach to explore requirements and opportunities for walking meetings. We conducted an online questionnaire and a series of interviews with early adopters of walking meetings and created design fictions based on their feedback. We evaluated the design fictions with a second questionnaire and garnered additional feedback from the original early adopters. Based on our findings, we derived four dimensions associated with walking meetings: practical, environmental, social, and cognitive facets. We define attributes, challenges, and opportunities within these dimensions which are important for designing systems that support walking meetings. Our work identifies key considerations for developing systems that integrate physical activity into communication activities.

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Technologies for healthy work

Abstract: Envisioning, designing, and implementing the user interface require a comprehensive understanding of interaction technologies. In this forum we scout trends and discuss new technologies with the potential to influence interaction design. --- Albrecht Schmidt, Editor

Cited by 16 publications

References 3 publications

MindPhone: Mindful Reflection at Unlock Can Reduce Absentminded Smartphone Use

MindPhone: Mindful Reflection at Unlock Can Reduce Absentminded Smartphone Use

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

Charting the Path: Requirements and Constraints for Technology-Supported Walking Meetings

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