Prolonged sitting at the workplace is a growing public health concern. In this paper, we propose the activity-focused design framework which provides an overview of recent work in HCI to stimulate physcial activity or to reduce sedentary behavior. Next, based on this framework, we present Stimulight, an intelligent system designed to explore the effect of providing personal and/or social feedback on the activity pattern of office workers. To test the intuitiveness of the feedback modalities of our design, three different feedback conditions were explored in a lab study with 61 participants. Our results show a positive effect of visualizing and sharing physical activity patterns with coworkers. Based on our findings, we present design implications and offer perspectives for future work on how to use social feedback mechanisms to encourage social interaction in the workplace to enhance physically active behavior among office workers.
Hans Brombacher, Dennis Arts, Carl Megens, and Steven Vos. 2019. Stimulight: Exploring Social Interaction to Reduce Physical Inactivity among Office Workers. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3313094
