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Experiences of Novice Design Facilitators in a Remote Participatory Workshop
In this work, we explore the perspectives of novice design facilitators, or early career designers, as they lead participatory design sessions in a Digital Wellbeing workshop. In our study, five undergraduate and recently graduated students acted as ...
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Hear We Are: Spatial Audio Benefits Perceptions of Turn-Taking and Social Presence in Video Meetings
Relative to in-person meetings, conversations in video meetings have long been reported as stilted. Spatial audio in video meetings can simulate the way we hear the world by separating audio streams based on speakers’ virtual locations. We report on a ...
Rebalancing Worker Initiative and AI Initiative in Future Work: Four Task Dimensions
Organizations have recently begun to deploy conversational task assistants that collaborate with knowledge workers to partially automate their work tasks. These assistants evolved out of business robotic process automation (RPA) tools and are becoming ...
Preparing Future Designers for Human-AI Collaboration in Persona Creation
This paper presents findings from an exploratory study investigating the use of AI text-generation tools to support novice designers in persona creation. We conducted a workshop with 22 undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory human-computer ...
Personal Informatics at the Office: User-Driven, Situated Sensor Kits in the Workplace
Workplaces are increasingly leveraging data-driven technological interventions to optimize employee productivity, health, and wellbeing. Yet employees are rarely involved in designing these initiatives, nor have access to the data collected to act upon ...
Tracking to Success? A Critical Reflection on Workplace Quantified-Self Technologies from a Humanistic Perspective
Self-tracking has become omnipresent in our daily lives. By providing insights into how work practices relate to performance or (physical and mental) health, quantified-self technologies (QST) have also made their way into the world of work. ...
Focus Time: Effectiveness of Computer Assisted Protected Time for Wellbeing and Work Engagement of Information Workers
Having little time for focused work is a major challenge of information work. While research has explored computing-assisted user-facing solutions for protecting time for focused work, there is limited empirical evidence about the long-term ...
How Much Home Office is Ideal? A Multi-Perspective Algorithm
The COVID pandemic made home office organization a necessity. Even beyond COVID-19, many employees will want to continue working, at least part-time, from home. The home office trend has various advantages and drawbacks from both the employer’s and the ...
Is a Return To Office a Return To Creativity? Requiring Fixed Time In Office To Enable Brainstorms and Watercooler Talk May Not Foster Research Creativity
In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, many professionals, including researchers, have transitioned into hybrid work. One concern arising from this transition is the cost to creativity in an environment of variable co-presence. We interviewed 24 ...
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Adapting to Telerehabilitation Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Future is Hybrid
Rehabilitation is vital for individuals to build compensatory strategies for, and recover from, physical and cognitive impairments. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted patients from receiving traditional co-located rehabilitation. Thus, a ...
Many Futures of Work and Skill: Heterogeneity in Skill Building Experiences on Digital Labor Platforms
Platform workers face the paradox of skill building: they bear full responsibility for addressing increasingly intricate, unpredictable, and undervalued skilling demands, while simultaneously grappling with limited access to structured, guided skill-...
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Designing Individualized Policy and Technology Interventions to Improve Gig Work Conditions
The gig economy is characterized by short-term contract work completed by independent workers who are paid to perform “gigs”, and who have control over when, whether and how they conduct work. Gig economy platforms (e.g., Uber, Lyft, Instacart) offer ...
Exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Creativity of Knowledge Work: Beyond Mechanised Plagiarism and Stochastic Parrots
Artificial Intelligence (AI), and in particular generative models, are transformative tools for knowledge work. They problematise notions of creativity, originality, plagiarism, the attribution of credit, and copyright ownership. Critics of generative ...
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- Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work