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Fidgebot: Working Out while Working

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More and more people suffer from chronic health issues related to posture and lack of movement in their office work. We developed a novel approach to motivate employees to be more physically active during their office work. Our approach focuses on using the social characteristics of the NAO robot platform to deliver social cues for motivation. Like a coworker who is very motivated to exercise, we used NAO to invite employees to do short "micro-exercises" along with NAO. This approach has multiple advantages when compared to conventional notification systems. Our pilot study shows that employees found it easy and enjoyable to perform micro-exercises with NAO. According to our qualitative data, NAO's social appearance was essential for the motivation of the employees.

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Yu XLi JVos SBrombacher A(2023)ACTIVE4: A Conceptual Framework for Gathering Empathetic Insights toward Office Workers’ Vitality Ecosystem DesignExtended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3544549.3585844(1-7)Online publication date: 19-Apr-2023
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HRI'15 Extended Abstracts: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts

March 2015

336 pages

ISBN:9781450333184

DOI:10.1145/2701973

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Julie A. Adams
Vanderbilt University, USA
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Oregon State University, USA
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Bilge Mutlu
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Google[x], USA

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