Leaf your Chair Behind - Calm Persuasion for Frequent Sitting Breaks Among Office-Workers
Jung-Krenzer T, Kirchner-Krath J, Retz C, Altmeyer M (2024)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2024
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
Pages Range: 111-128
Conference Proceedings Title: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Event location: Karlsruhe, DEU
ISBN: 9798400709982
Abstract
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 prompt frequent sitting breaks in the office. With our system we want to address two key issues of existing approaches: low compliance due to lack of motivation, and user annoyance with frequent prompts. Based on a literature review, we developed four design concepts each using a different prompt modality (appearance, audio, light, movement) and evaluated them qualitatively by conducting a focus group interview with a panel of workplace health management experts (N=5) and quantitatively in an explorative online study with our target demographic (N=39) rating the concepts' perceived persuasiveness and obtrusiveness. Based on our findings, we derive design implications for researchers and practitioners, and demonstrate their technical feasibility by providing a proof-of-concept implementation.
Authors with CRIS profile
Jeanine Kirchner-Krath
Assistant Professorship of Information Systems (Gamification) - endowed by adidas
Involved external institutions
Universität des Saarlandes (UdS)
Germany (DE)
Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart
Germany (DE)
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes
Germany (DE)
Germany (DE)
Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart
Germany (DE)
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes
Germany (DE)
How to cite
APA:
Jung-Krenzer, T., Kirchner-Krath, J., Retz, C., & Altmeyer, M. (2024). Leaf your Chair Behind - Calm Persuasion for Frequent Sitting Breaks Among Office-Workers. In ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (pp. 111-128). Karlsruhe, DEU: Association for Computing Machinery.
MLA:
Jung-Krenzer, Theresa, et al. "Leaf your Chair Behind - Calm Persuasion for Frequent Sitting Breaks Among Office-Workers." Proceedings of the 2024 Mensch und Computer, MuC 2024, Karlsruhe, DEU Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. 111-128.
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