Stimulight: exploring social interaction to reduce physical inactivity among office workers

Hans Brombacher; Dennis Arts; Carl Megens; Steven Vos

doi:10.1145/3290607.3313094

Stimulight: exploring social interaction to reduce physical inactivity among office workers

Hans Brombacher, Dennis Arts, Carl Megens, Steven Vos

Systemic Change

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Abstract

Prolonged sitting at the workplace is a growing public health concern. In this paper, we propose the activity-focused design framework which provides an overview of recent work in HCI to stimulate physcial activity or to reduce sedentary behavior. Next, based on this framework, we present Stimulight, an intelligent system designed to explore the effect of providing personal and/or social feedback on the activity pattern of office workers. To test the intuitiveness of the feedback modalities of our design, three different feedback conditions were explored in a lab study with 61 participants. Our results show a positive effect of visualizing and sharing physical activity patterns with coworkers. Based on our findings, we present design implications and offer perspectives for future work on how to use social feedback mechanisms to encourage social interaction in the workplace to enhance physically active behavior among office workers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5971-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313094
Publication status	Published - 2 May 2019
Event	37th ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019 Conference number: 37 https://chi2019.acm.org

Conference

Conference	37th ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
Abbreviated title	CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19
Internet address	https://chi2019.acm.org

Keywords

Design framework
Intervention design
Office environment
Physical activity
Social feedback
Social interaction

UN SDGs

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Brombacher, H , Arts, D, Megens, C & Vos, S 2019, Stimulight: exploring social interaction to reduce physical inactivity among office workers. in CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., LBW0136 , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, 37th ACM Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313094

Stimulight : exploring social interaction to reduce physical inactivity among office workers. / Brombacher, Hans ; Arts, Dennis; Megens, Carl et al.

CHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2019. LBW0136 .

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