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Steps, Choices and Moral Accounting: Observations from a Step-Counting Campaign in the Workplace
Nanna Gorm,Irina Shklovski +1 more
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An in-situ study of a nation-wide workplace step-counting campaign shows that in the context of the workplace steps are a socially negotiated quantity and that participation in the campaign has an impact on those who volunteer to participate and those who opt-out.Abstract:
Sedentary work is a contributing factor to growing obesity levels worldwide. Research shows that step-counters can offer a way to motivate greater physical mobility. We present an in-situ study of a nation-wide workplace step-counting campaign. Our findings show that in the context of the workplace steps are a socially negotiated quantity and that participation in the campaign has an impact on those who volunteer to participate and those who opt-out. We highlight that specific health promotion initiatives do not operate in a vacuum, but are experienced as one out of many efforts offered to the employees. Using a social ecology lens we illustrate how conceptualizing a step-counting campaign as a health promotion rather than a behavior change effort can have implications for what is construed as success.read more
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Physiolytics at the workplace : Affordances and constraints of wearables use from an employee’s perspective
Tobias Mettler,Jochen Wulf +1 more
TL;DR: Five distinct user types are identified each of which characterizes a specific viewpoint on physiolytics at the workplace: the freedom loving, the individualist, the cynical, the tech independent, and the balancer, to allow for better understanding the wider implications and possible user responses to the introduction of wearable technologies in occupational settings.
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Supporting Meaningful Personal Fitness: the Tracker Goal Evolution Model
Jasmin Niess,Paweł W. Woźniak +1 more
TL;DR: The model describes how tracker goals can evolve from internal user needs through qualitative goals to quantitative goals that can be used with trackers and is useful for designers of future trackers to create evolving and meaningful tracking goals.
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Finding the Right Fit: Understanding Health Tracking in Workplace Wellness Programs
TL;DR: There is a gap between the intentions of the programs and individual experiences and health goals, and even if this gap can be addressed, health tracking in the workplace will not be for everyone; this has implications for the design of both workplace wellness programs and tracking technologies.
Beyond the user : use and non-use in HCI
Christine Satchell,Paul Dourish +1 more
TL;DR: This work focuses on not using computers -- ways not to use them, aspects of not using them, what not using they might mean, and what the authors might learn by examining non-use as seriously as they examine use.
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Mapping and Taking Stock of the Personal Informatics Literature
Daniel A. Epstein,Clara Caldeira,Mayara Costa Figueiredo,Xi Lu,Lucas M. Silva,Lucretia Williams,Jong Ho Lee,Qingyang Li,Simran Ahuja,Qiuer Chen,Payam Dowlatyari,Craig Hilby,Sazeda Sultana,Elizabeth V. Eikey,Yunan Chen +14 more
TL;DR: The research community on the study and design of systems for personal informatics has grown over the past decade as discussed by the authors, with an emphasis on understanding and overcoming barriers to data collection and reflection.
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