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According to the Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits, work-related exposures are estimated to account for about 15% of all adult respiratory diseases. Today, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) is the only way for workers to prevent disease. Nevertheless, its use is highly sparse. Currently, products and systems embedded with wearable technologies are able to protect, motivate and educate users. The authors then suggested the development of a novel wearable system following the beliefs that wearable technology can be persuasive and elicit a conscious behaviour towards the use of the PPEs by consequently improving their health condition. The authors here describe the result of a Transnational Research Project named "P_O_D Plurisensorial Device to prevent Occupational Disease." The chapter describes the findings achieved so far, the research phase and the new wearable system conceived as a possible example of how to use wearable technology as a useful tool to influence behavioural change.

According to occupational disease registries and voluntary reporting schemes in various European countries, the annual incidence of respiratory diseases is estimated to be 2– 5 cases per 100 000 working individuals. Nowadays the use of personal protective equipment is the only way for workers to prevent disease but it is highly sparse. Authors suggest the development of a wearable novel system that, exploiting persuasive technologies can build an environmental sensing networks to share information about user health and work related risks. We want to elicit a conscious behaviour in the user and, consequently, improving the working health condition.\ud The paper investigates how persuasive technologies work and could change behaviour; describes a user analysis carried out in working environment; then defines the requirements of the wearable system in order to motivate the workers to the use of the PPEs by making them aware about work-related risks and their health status

The paper presents the results of the experimentation of a self-and peer evaluation activity conducted in a design studio of the master's of science in Design & Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. A preliminary observation disclosed that many students are not often stimulated to reflect on the soft skills they develop through such project-based collaborative courses. This lack of self-reflection often determines a lack of awareness of their soft skills, which are very important in the contemporary work field. The research is aimed at designing a strategy to support the students' reflection through a self-and peer evaluation activity. These kinds of evaluations are widely employed in management education to assess teamwork through team member's eye. The presented experimentation is aimed at integrating the self-and peer evaluation practice in the Design & Engineering M.Sc. The experimentation, conducted during the three-months studio, revealed that the implementation of a structured self-and peer evaluation activity could have a positive impact on team members, stimulating them to reflect on their own soft skills. Besides, the combination of self-and peer evaluation enhances the reflection and provides a ground to constructively discuss about individuals' role in teamwork. The paper presents and discusses the activity to show how it can enhance the whole learning experience.