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

Bussel, Tjeu van; Heuvel, Roy van den; Lallemand, Carine

doi:10.1145/3491101.3519849

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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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From Monitoring to Assisting: A Systematic Review towards Healthier Workplaces

Lopes

Rodrigues

Cabral

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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“…In a preliminary user study [1] we conducted using Habilyzer, the majority of participants investigated a work habit related to bad posture or sedentary behavior (e.g., sitting time, number of breaks during the day). Some of them were also interested in gaining insights into their productivity and what factors could infuence it (environment disturbance, type of work).…”

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Habilyzer: A User-Driven Open-Ended Sensor Kit for Office Workers

Heuvel

Bussel

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 working habits or environmental factors. While technological interventions gain popularity in the workplace, they often fall short of acknowledging personal needs. Building on approaches from personal informatics, we present our vision on the use of user-driven, situated sensor probes in an ofce context and how the community might deal with complex yet timely questions around the use of data to empower people in becoming explorers of their own habits and experiences. We demonstrate Habilyzer, an open-ended sensor toolkit for ofce workers, which enables user-driven explorations in self-tracking their work routines. This research contributes an alternative approach to improving working habits and vitality in the workplace, moving from solution-oriented technologies to inquiryenabling tools. Through this demonstration, we also aim to trigger discussions on the use of sensors and data in the ofce context, in the light of privacy, consent and data ownership. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing; • Human computer interaction (HCI); Interaction techniques.;

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Eliciting Meaningful Collaboration Metrics: Design Implications for Self-Tracking Technologies at Work

Lushnikova,

Bongard-Blanchy,

Koenig

et al. 2023

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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As the workplace collaboration software market is booming, there is an opportunity to design tools to support reflection and self-regulation of collaboration practices. Building on approaches from personal informatics (PI), we aim to understand and promote the use of data to enable employees to explore their work practices, specifically collaboration. Focused on the preparation stage of PI (deciding to track and tools selection), we invited office workers (N=15, knowledge workers in academia) to identify meaningful aspects of their collaboration experience and report them in a logbook for two weeks. We then conducted semi-structured interviews with participants to identify and reflect on metrics related to collaboration experience. We contribute new insights into employees' motivations and envisioned metrics reflecting their collaboration, including the personal, social, and organizational considerations for collecting and sharing this data. We derive design implications for self-tracking technologies for collaboration.

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

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

From Monitoring to Assisting: A Systematic Review towards Healthier Workplaces

From Monitoring to Assisting: A Systematic Review towards Healthier Workplaces

Habilyzer: A User-Driven Open-Ended Sensor Kit for Office Workers

Eliciting Meaningful Collaboration Metrics: Design Implications for Self-Tracking Technologies at Work

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