Understanding Walking Meetings: Drivers and Barriers

Damen, Ida; Lallemand, Carine; Brankaert, Rens; Brombacher, Aarnout; Wesemael, Pieter van; Vos, Steven

doi:10.1145/3313831.3376141

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“…Social conventions were also modified by the setup, which positively contributed to 'normalizing movement' during meetings. As recommended by [6], it is essential that these new forms of meetings are accepted as part of the work culture, which can be achieved by embedding them into the existing infrastructure. In the questionnaires, the energy level and efficiency were rated slightly higher when using PositionPeak.…”

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“…Beyond the aforementioned designs, only a limited number of designs can be found that target active ways of having a meeting. One example is the Workwalk by Damen et al [4,6], a service design concept to stimulate walking meetings. This design however has practical limitations such as note-taking or presenting material.…”

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“…Standing or walking meetings are examples of integrated physical activity during meetings. But while some experience standing meetings as uncomfortable [8], walking meetings also have some limitations, for instance related to weather conditions or the inability to take notes and access presenting tools [6]. To address these limitations, and as a complement to existing active ways of meeting, we focus on the design of a more active meeting space.…”

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PositionPeak: Stimulating Position Changes During Meetings

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In office environments, workers spend the majority of their workday sitting in a static position behind a desk or around a meeting table. Prolonged sitting time and sedentary behavior have severe negative health effects. Through this explorative study, we studied how different postures can be stimulated during meetings. We designed PositionPeak: three pieces of furniture aimed at composing a 'dynamic meeting room', subtly encouraging participants to avoid static postures. We video-recorded 5 meetings (N=16) and coded the number of position changes per participant. Participants also filled out a pre-and post-questionnaire about their experience. Our findings show that PositionPeak triggers people to adopt a variety of postures. Participants on average experienced a more efficient meeting but reported physical discomfort with some objects. We discuss the influence of PositionPeak on the meetings' social dynamics, the acceptance of new conventions and design recommendations for new meeting facilities.

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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).…”

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

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Grave

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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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“…However, for many individuals, walking meetings are only seen as a viable replacement for specific categories of meetings. Early brainstorming and ideation sessions or informal meetings where minimal note-taking is required are commonly viewed as meetings that are appropriate for walking meetings [27]. While the benefits of walking meetings are apparent and technologies exist that could be used for meetings in motion (e.g.…”

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

Haliburton

Woźniak

Schmidt

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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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Understanding Walking Meetings: Drivers and Barriers

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PositionPeak: Stimulating Position Changes During Meetings

PositionPeak: Stimulating Position Changes During Meetings

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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