APEOW: A personal persuasive avatar for encouraging breaks in office work
Paper in proceeding, 2016

Proper break taking during office work iss necessary to prevent musculoskeletal disorders and reduce the risk of heart disease. We present APOEW-an avatar for preventing continuous office work without taking breaks. APOEW is a system that uses a personalized robot avatar to encourage proper break behaviour during office work. The avatar signals the need for a break by stooping. The system was designed to be unobtrusive and blend well with the office environment. The avatars are customisable in order to enable users to design their work environment freely. We conducted a user study where we observed developers working in front of their computers next to the avatar. Preliminary results indicate it has no negative impact on the work environment and users are intrigued by the system. Moreover, a survey on attitude to our concept reveals interesting and positive feedback that will help to develop an APOEW system further. © 2016 Polish Information Processing Society.

Author

P. Kucharski

Lodz University of Technology

P. Luczak

Lodz University of Technology

I. Perenc

Lodz University of Technology

T. Jaworski

Lodz University of Technology

A. Romanowski

Lodz University of Technology

Mohammad Obaid

Koç University

Pawel Wozniak

Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Interaction design

Proceedings of the 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS 2016. Gdansk; Poland; 11-14 September 2016

2325-0348 (ISSN)

Vol. 8 1627-1630
9788360810903 (ISBN)

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Subject Categories

Medical Engineering

DOI

10.15439/2016F491

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