In modern times, work has started bleeding outside of corporate offices. The notion of a routine nine-to-five at a designated desk or workstation has become limited with the advent of non-traditional work cultures and environments. Computers and ...

The increasing integration of computing technologies in the workplace has also seen the conceptualization and development of data-driven and algorithmic tools that aim to improve workers’ wellbeing and performance. However, both research and practice ...

In recent years, companies massively invested in videoconferencing and awareness support tools to support hybrid forms of collaborative work. Current market solutions feature various augmentations of videoconferencing software based on tracked ...

Desktop companion robots have attracted increasing attention, yet their application to support office workers requires further exploration. In envisioning the role of desktop companion robots as a helpful “peer” for office workers, we conducted a lab ...

Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a promising educational training method, offering a more engaging and immersive experience than traditional approaches. In this case study, we explore its effectiveness for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ...

Many emerging technologies are expected to reconfigure workplaces, and serious concerns have already been raised about their impact on workers, especially those who are already precarious. This study explores what roles designers can play to address ...

Autistic adults often experience stigma and discrimination at work, leading them to seek social communication support from coworkers, friends, and family despite emotional risks. Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly considered an alternative. In ...

The extensive use of computers for text entry has been linked to increased stress, depression, and sleep disturbances, adversely affecting performance. Recent trends involve using scent diffusers to counter these effects. However, the impact of scents on ...

Integrating graduate education with professional skills development is still a challenge. People's beliefs about learning impact their learning processes. Therefore, we need to understand the mindset of graduates to determine best practices for promoting ...

This study estimates the risk of COVID-19 infection in workplaces using the information on the occurrence of face-to-face meetings detected from the location data of employees in the office. The face-to-face meetings, the number of participants, ...

This proposal aims to provide an empirical understanding of how conversational AI-driven personal assistants can operate effectively and ethically in the workplace. In particular, we will carefully design and build a prototype for a new AI-powered ...

Our modern work environment and society often faces a serious problem of workplace stress which is frequently undetected until it leads to numerous health challenges and negatively impacts productivity. Current research in this field highlights workplace ...

Having little time for focused work is a major challenge of information work. While research has explored computing-assisted user-facing solutions for protecting time for focused work, there is limited empirical evidence about the long-term ...

Getting engaged organizational environments is a competitive advantage for companies. In these contexts, the use of game design elements seems promising. Gamification is a form of motivational design which, fundamentally, is a means of encouraging ...

Sensing technologies deployed in the workplace can unobtrusively collect detailed data about individual activities and group interactions that are otherwise difficult to capture. A hopeful application of these technologies is that they can help ...

Inclusive workplaces require mutual efforts between neurotypical (NT) and neurodivergent (ND) employees to understand one another’s viewpoints and experiences. Currently, the majority of inclusivity training places the burden of change on NDs to conform ...

Workplaces are increasingly adopting emotion AI, promising benefits to organizations. However, little is known about the perceptions and experiences of workers subject to emotion AI in the workplace. Our interview study with (n=15) US adult workers ...

Preventing workplace phishing depends on the actions of every employee, regardless of cybersecurity expertise. Based on 24 semi-structured interviews with mid-career office workers (70.8% women, averaging 44 years old) at two U.S. universities, we found ...

The workplace has experienced extensive digital transformation, in part due to artificial intelligence's commercial availability. Though still an emerging technology, emotional artificial intelligence (EAI) is increasingly incorporated into enterprise ...

Workplace bias creates negative psychological outcomes for employees, permeating the larger organization. Workplace meetings are frequent, making them a key context where bias may occur. Video conferencing (VC) is an increasingly common medium for ...