Detect, trace and react: Danish senior centre staffs' awareness of and response to signs of deteriorating health or well‐being among senior centre users – An ethnographic field study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofie Langergaard ◽  
Amanda N. Rasmussen ◽  
Kirsten S. Petersen ◽  
Morten Villumsen ◽  
Charlotte Overgaard
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Senior Centre

scholarly journals Quantified factory worker: field study of a web application supporting work well-being and productivity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Päivi Heikkilä ◽  
Anita Honka ◽  
Eija Kaasinen ◽  
Kaisa Väänänen
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Production Data ◽  
Automated Manufacturing ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Mental Load ◽  
Machine Operators

AbstractThe work on the factory floor is gradually changing to resemble knowledge work due to highly automated manufacturing machines. In the increasingly automated work environment, the machine operator’s task is to keep the production running and to solve possible problems quickly. This work is expected to become more autonomous, which raises the importance of supporting the workers’ well-being. An important aspect of that is giving concrete feedback of success at work as well as feedback on physical and mental load. We implemented a smartphone optimized web application, Worker Feedback Dashboard that offers feedback to machine operators about their well-being at work and personally relevant production data as well as their connections to each other. The feedback is personal and based on objective, near real-time measurements. We present the results of a field study, in which ten machine operators used the application for 2–3 months. We studied the operators’ user experience, usage activity, perceived benefits and concerns for the application with questionnaires, interviews and application log data. The operators found the feedback interesting and beneficial, and used the application actively. The perceived benefits indicate impacts on well-being as well as on work performance. Based on the results, we highlight three design implications for quantified worker applications: presenting meaningful overviews, providing guidance to act based on the feedback and refraining from too pervasive quantification not to narrow down the meaningful aspects in one’s work.

scholarly journals Digital Games and Mindfulness Apps: Comparison of Effects on Post Work Recovery

10.2196/12853 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. e12853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Collins ◽  
Anna Cox ◽  
Caroline Wilcock ◽  
Geraint Sethu-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Job Strain ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Work Recovery ◽  
Mixed Analysis ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Game Condition

Background Engagement in activities that promote the dissipation of work stress is essential for post work recovery and consequently for well-being. Previous research suggests that activities that are immersive, active, and engaging are especially effective at promoting recovery. Therefore, digital games may be able to promote recovery, but little is known about how they compare with other popular mobile activities, such as mindfulness apps that are specifically designed to support well-being. Objective The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the effectiveness of a digital game and mindfulness app in promoting post work recovery, first in a laboratory setting and then in a field study. Methods Study 1 was a laboratory experiment (n=45) in which participants’ need for recovery was induced by a work task, before undertaking 1 of 3 interventions: a digital game (Block! Hexa Puzzle), a mindfulness app (Headspace), or a nonmedia control with a fidget spinner (a physical toy). Recovery in the form of how energized participants felt (energetic arousal) was compared before and after the intervention and how recovered participants felt (recovery experience) was compared across the conditions. Study 2 was a field study with working professionals (n=20), for which participants either played the digital game or used the mindfulness app once they arrived home after work for a period of 5 working days. Measures of energetic arousal were taken before and after the intervention, and the recovery experience was measured after the intervention along with measures of enjoyment and job strain. Results A 3×2 mixed analysis of variance identified that, in study 1, the digital game condition increased energetic arousal (indicative of improved recovery) whereas the other 2 conditions decreased energetic arousal (F2,42=3.76; P=.03). However, there were no differences between the conditions in recovery experience (F2,42=.01; P=.99). In study 2, multilevel model comparisons identified that neither the intervention nor day of the week had a significant main effect on how energized participants felt. However, for those in the digital game condition, daily recovery experience increased during the course of the study, whereas for those in the mindfulness condition, it decreased (F1,18=9.97; P=.01). Follow-up interviews with participants identified 3 core themes: detachment and restoration, fluctuations and differences, and routine and scheduling. Conclusions This study suggests that digital games may be effective in promoting post work recovery in laboratory contexts (study 1) and in the real world, although the effect in this case may be cumulative rather than instant (study 2).

scholarly journals Mind-Body Dualism and Health Revisited

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Burgmer ◽  
Matthias Forstmann
Keyword(s):  
Health Behavior ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Lay People ◽  
Behavior Study ◽  
Health Related Behaviors ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Sound Mind ◽  
Mental Well Being

Abstract. Does a sound mind require a sound body? Whether or not lay people subscribe to this notion depends on their belief in mind-body dualism and critically shapes their health-related behaviors. Six studies (N = 1,710) revisit the relation between dualism and health. We replicate the negative correlation between belief in dualism and health behavior (Study 1) and extend it to behavior in the field (Study 2). Studies 3a and 3b investigate how belief in dualism shapes intuitions about the material origin of psychological well-being, while Studies 4a and 4b examine how these intuitions determine health-related outcomes. In sum, construing minds as different from bodies entails the intuition that mental well-being has little material substrate which in turn attenuates health-sustaining behaviors.

scholarly journals Youth Reflexivity as Participatory Research in Senegal: A Field Study of Reciprocal Learning and Incremental Transformations

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Maclure
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Well Being ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Reciprocal Learning ◽  
Urban Neighbourhoods ◽  
Transformative Process ◽  
Power Arrangements ◽  
Participation In Research

There is now widespread appreciation that children are capable of functioning as key protagonists of their own development, and that this capacity can be enhanced if they are afforded opportunities to participate in forms of inquiry that stimulate reflexivity amongst themselves and with outside researchers. There is likewise common acceptance that youth participation in research on issues that relate to their well-being can contribute to evidence-based knowledge that has multiple benefits. Rather more ambiguous, however, are questions concerning the nature of youth–researcher relationships and whether—or to what extent—youth participation in research can be characterized as a transformative process. Such questions are particularly salient in countries of the global South where the notion of youth participation tends to run counter to the persistence of hierarchical power arrangements, and where there are substantial socio-cultural differences between youth participants and professional researchers, many of whom are associated with international aid. This article addresses these questions by recounting a field study that engaged eight groups of youth living in rural communities and urban neighbourhoods in Senegal. Through processes of reflexivity that entailed analysis of issues they deemed to be socially problematic, and through subsequent dissemination of their analyses in narrative performances of their choosing, the youth attained a remarkable degree of project ownership. As a result, the field study also fostered a process of reciprocal learning among the participants and the researchers that contributed to the genesis of incremental transformations.

scholarly journals Identity Leadership, Social Identity Continuity, and Well-Being at Work During COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henning Krug ◽  
S. Alexander Haslam ◽  
Kathleen Otto ◽  
Niklas K. Steffens
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Field Study ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Identity Continuity ◽  
Health And Well Being

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to widespread remote working that has posed significant challenges for people’s sense of connection to their workplace and their mental health and well-being. In the present work, we examined how leaders’ identity leadership is associated with the well-being of employees in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we examined how both leaders’ and team members’ identity leadership is associated with employees’ social identity continuity, and through this with their job satisfaction, burnout and loneliness at work. Employees (N = 363) participated in a field study during the COVID-19 pandemic, completing measures of their leader’s and team members’ identity leadership (i.e., entrepreneurship and impresarioship), social identity continuity, job satisfaction, burnout, loneliness at work. Results revealed that to the extent that employees perceived greater social identity continuity, they were more satisfied with their work and felt less lonely. Furthermore, mediation analyses revealed indirect effects of team members’ identity entrepreneurship on job satisfaction and loneliness via an increase in social identity continuity. Results suggest that to foster employees’ health and well-being in times of disruption, organizations might put in place practices that allow employees to maintain a sense of ‘we-ness’ at work by involving not only formal leaders but also other members of the organization.

Measuring the Occupant Benefits of Green Buildings

1997 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 495-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Wise
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Green Buildings ◽  
Ancillary Benefits ◽  
Experimental Field ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Widespread reports have surprisingly indicated that “green” buildings may be as beneficial to their occupants as to the environment. These are purported ancillary benefits like improved health, morale and well being, and even enhanced human performance and productivity. This paper presents the results of a two year quasi-experimental field study in a new ‘green building’ that measured occupant responses, proposed an explanatory rationale, and developed a protocol for assessing overall green building benefits.

Office acoustics: Analyzing reverberation time and subjective evaluation

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Helmut Strasser ◽  
Kristina Gruen ◽  
Werner Koch
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Work Performance ◽  
Subjective Evaluation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cost Utility ◽  
Acceptance Rate ◽  
Reverberation Time

Members of the design department in a medium-sized company were complaining to the management about the acoustic situation in new offices which adversely affected their personal well-being and their work performance. Therefore, a field study was conducted to analyze and evaluate the acoustic working conditions in the new offices and to develop improvements where necessary. Objective criteria for the evaluation of communication disturbances during meetings or telephone conversations were obtained by measuring the reverberation time in several offices. Questionnaires with unipolar or bipolar 4-step scales allowed a differentiated judgement of the current acoustic situation and its effects on the person or individual. Improvements of the acoustics were developed and cost-utility prognoses were made. The proposed solutions and their prospective acceptance rate among the employees were assessed before they were implemented.

scholarly journals Computer mouse movements as a scalable detector of work stress: A longitudinal observational field study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Banholzer ◽  
Stefan Feuerriegel ◽  
Elgar Fleisch ◽  
Georg Friedrich Bauer ◽  
Tobias Kowatsch
Keyword(s):  
Field Study ◽  
Work Stress ◽  
Acute Stress ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Bayesian Regression ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Computer Mouse ◽  
Mouse Movements ◽  
Speed Accuracy ◽  
Accuracy Tradeoff

BACKGROUND Work stress afflicts individual health and well-being. These negative effects could be mitigated through regular monitoring of employees’ stress. Such monitoring becomes even more important as the digital transformation of the economy implies profound changes of working conditions. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the computer mouse can be used for continuous monitoring and early detection of work stress in the field. METHODS We hypothesized that stress is associated with a speed-accuracy tradeoff in computer mouse movements (CMMs). To test this hypothesis, we conducted a longitudinal field study at a large business organization, where CMMs from regular work activities were monitored over seven weeks (70 subjects, n=1,829 observations). A Bayesian regression model was used to estimate whether self-reported acute work stress was associated with a speed-accuracy tradeoff in CMMs. RESULTS There was a negative association between stress and the two-way interaction term of mouse speed and accuracy (mean = −0.36, lower = −0.66, upper = −0.08), which means that stress was associated with a speed-accuracy tradeoff. The estimated effect was not sensitive to different processing of the data and remained negative after controlling for the demographics, health, and personality traits of subjects. CONCLUSIONS Self-reported acute stress can be inferred from CMMs, specifically in the form of a speed-accuracy tradeoff. This finding suggests to use regular analysis of CMMs for the early and scalable detection of work stress on the job and thus promises more timely and effective stress management.

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