Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study
Research has suggested regular breaks in sedentary office work are im-portant for health, wellbeing and long-term productivity. Although many comput-erized break reminders exist, few are based on user needs and requirements as determined by formative research. This paper reports empirical findings f...
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| author | Huang, Yitong Benford, Steve Hendrickx, Hilde Treloar, Rob Blake, Holly |
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| description | Research has suggested regular breaks in sedentary office work are im-portant for health, wellbeing and long-term productivity. Although many comput-erized break reminders exist, few are based on user needs and requirements as determined by formative research. This paper reports empirical findings from a diary-probed interview study with 20 office workers on their perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work. This work makes two contributions to the Persuasive Technology (PT) community: a diagnosis of the full range of determinants and levers for changing office work break behaviours; a demonstration of applying the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW), an intervention development framework originating from Health chology, to elicit theory-based design rec-ommendations for a potential PT. |
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| spelling | nottingham-413052020-05-04T18:37:01Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41305/ Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study Huang, Yitong Benford, Steve Hendrickx, Hilde Treloar, Rob Blake, Holly Research has suggested regular breaks in sedentary office work are im-portant for health, wellbeing and long-term productivity. Although many comput-erized break reminders exist, few are based on user needs and requirements as determined by formative research. This paper reports empirical findings from a diary-probed interview study with 20 office workers on their perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work. This work makes two contributions to the Persuasive Technology (PT) community: a diagnosis of the full range of determinants and levers for changing office work break behaviours; a demonstration of applying the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW), an intervention development framework originating from Health chology, to elicit theory-based design rec-ommendations for a potential PT. Springer Verlag 2017-03-09 Article PeerReviewed Huang, Yitong, Benford, Steve, Hendrickx, Hilde, Treloar, Rob and Blake, Holly (2017) Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10171 . pp. 149-161. ISSN 0302-9743 Workplace sedentary behaviour Requirement elicitation method https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-55134-0_12 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55134-0_12 doi:10.1007/978-3-319-55134-0_12 |
| spellingShingle | Workplace sedentary behaviour Requirement elicitation method Huang, Yitong Benford, Steve Hendrickx, Hilde Treloar, Rob Blake, Holly Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study |
| title | Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study |
| title_full | Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study |
| title_fullStr | Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study |
| title_short | Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study |
| title_sort | office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study |
| topic | Workplace sedentary behaviour Requirement elicitation method |
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