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Sedentary behavior has been linked to numerous detrimental health outcomes. This is particularly pronounced among office workers. Sitting breaks can attenuate some of these detrimental health effects. Thus, our goal was to design a persuasive system to ...

In the domain of health and well-being, proactive voice interventions have demonstrated their efficacy. However, users often encounter privacy concerns and social embarrassment due to the lack of control over these proactive interventions, especially in ...

Prior research has designed and evaluated Voice Assistance (VA) for different settings such as the home, school, and public spaces. Office environments have been relatively understudied, leaving a gap in understanding the essential factors for designing ...

Performing non-driving-related tasks as car passenger reduces visual perception of surroundings, which may cause a conflict with the human vestibular system and thus lead to motion sickness. Augmented reality head-mounted displays offer a possible ...

In view of the current problems of energy waste in China’s office lighting, lack of intelligent lighting control and single adjustment mode, based on the domestic intelligent control system, development status, current stage technology, etc., this ...

Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) can affect health and cognitive performance prior to users becoming aware of the declining air quality. Yet office occupants rarely have access to IAQ information upon which to base their ventilation decisions. This paper ...

The inclusion of IoT in office lighting allows people to have personal lighting control at their workplace. To design lighting control interfaces that fit people's everyday living, we need a better understanding of how people experience lighting ...

Thermal comfort in shared workplaces is often contested and impacts productivity, wellbeing, and energy use. Yet, subjective and situated comfort experiences are rarely captured and engaged with. In this paper, we explore roles for digital surveys in ...

My PhD focusses on interaction with office lighting as part of the Internet of Things. By applying a research-through-design approach, I design and evaluate interfaces for personal lighting control, taking into account stakeholders involved in the ...

Smart thermostats offer impressive scope for adapting to users' thermal comfort preferences and saving energy in shared work environments. Yet human interactions with smart thermostats thus far amount to an assumption from designers that users are ...

This paper details our work towards designing a system for crowd-sourcing responses on thermal comfort in naturally ventilated office buildings. We provide preliminary qualitative findings on the deployment of this system. Specifically, we explore the ...

Poor Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ) in office environments leads to worker discomfort and lost productivity. This paper provides a unique perspective into the specifically social determinants of IEQ in naturally ventilated offices and our work toward ...

Employees increasingly are expressing ideas and feelings through enterprise social media. Recent work in CHI and CSCW has applied linguistic analysis towards understanding employee experiences. In this paper, we apply dictionary based linguistic ...

In office spaces, knowledge workers interact both with each other and with various analog and digital devices in the office. We think that the office environment opens up an interesting space to utilize smartwatches to support and digitally augment ...

Though rapid depletion of natural resources has become a global problem, most of the solutions developed to address it are based on studies done in the developed world. Moreover, the commercial sector is among the primary consumers of resources, yet ...

Comfort complaints, such as high or low temperatures, lack of privacy and concentration loss, are regularly reported in today's offices. Most comfort aspects, such as lighting, ventilation, decoration and climate are regulated on global level, while for ...

Finding the right person to ask for help is a difficult task within a large enterprise. While there are a few studies detailing practices for finding an expert often in the context of an expertise locator system, there are fewer studies on workplace ...

Work organization and team membership is highly complex for modern workers. Teams are often dynamic as personnel change during a project. Dynamic team members have to be actively recruited and personnel changes make it harder for participants to retain ...

Expertise selection is the process of choosing an expert from a list of recommended people. This is an important and nuanced step in expertise location that has not received a great deal of attention. Through a lab-based, controlled investigation with ...

In order to meet the requirement of quickly retrieving offices' documents for staffs in offices. The article studied and implemented One Full-Text Retrieval system based on Lucene which catered to massive document data retrieval. This system can ...