Maral Babapour Chafi
My research concerns adoption of innovations in workplaces from a user-centered design perspective. I have been investigating the implications of relocating to Activity-based Flexible Offices/AFOs (also called ABW/Activity-based working, or non-territorial/hot-desking offices). I am interested the interplay between: individuals, their activities, and and the ecology of technological artefact in workplaces. The questions that I address are:
- What design-related aspects in AFOs support and/or impede individuals’ activities and wellbeing over time?
- In what ways do individuals, groups and organisations adopt and adapt to AFOs?
- How can the design processes before relocating to AFOs be improved so that AFOs better match employees’ needs?
- What are the success factors in Occupational Health and Safety Management processes after relocating to AFOs?
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Contextual user research methods for eliciting user experience insights in workplace studies
Workspace preferences and non-preferences in Activity-based Flexible Offices: Two case studies
Fysisk arbetsmiljö för hälsa, välmående och prestation
Predictors of Preference for the Activity-based Flexible Office
What Negative Space has to do with Design Fixations in HCI Research
Appropriation of an Activity-based Flexible Office in Daily Work
Policies for sharing workspaces in activity-based flex offices
Use profiles in Activity-based Flexible Offices – A case study
PENSIERI - An Inquiry into Sketching and Modelling in Design
Externalisation activities and creativity in design process
Roles of externalisation activities in the design process
Media and representations in product design education
From passive memory back-ups to interactive situating materials
Bridging the Discrepancy between Reflective Practice and Systematic Form Generation Approaches
Roles of Visualisation Tools in Form Design Process
Visualizing the design process–an educational approach for the synthesis of design diaries
Innovative Form Design - A Formal Aesthetics Design Approach for Creative Form Generation
The Influence of Self-reflective Diaries on Students' Design Processes
Creating Novel Product Form Based on Formal Aesthetics – A Method for Advanced Form Design Education
A comparison of Diary Method Variations for Enlightening Form Generation in the Design Process
Adoption of ergonomic features in a new reach truck cabin design – a usability study
A comparison of Diary Method Variations for Enlightening Form Generation in the Design Process
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Healthy and thriving workplaces – Physical work environment with special focus on loading ergonomics
A Model for predictive assessment of cognitive workload - PreKo