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Evaluating How Desktop Companion Robot Behaviors Influence Work Experience and Robot Perception
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 ...
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Queering/Cripping Technologies of Productivity
In this paper, we contribute three design manifestos that start from our queer, crip experiences to resist dominant designs and practices of productivity. Through our manifestos, we explore tensions in glitching three technologies of productivity (...
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"If the Machine Is As Good As Me, Then What Use Am I?" – How the Use of ChatGPT Changes Young Professionals' Perception of Productivity and Accomplishment
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have been widely adopted in work contexts. We explore the impact of ChatGPT on young professionals’ perception of productivity and sense of accomplishment. We collected LLMs’ main use cases in knowledge work ...
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Quantifying the Invisible Labor in Crowd Work
Crowdsourcing markets provide workers with a centralized place to find paid work. What may not be obvious at first glance is that, in addition to the work they do for pay, crowd workers also have to shoulder a variety of unpaid invisible labor in these ...
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Demonstrating TapID for Rapid Touch Interaction on Surfaces in Virtual Reality for Productivity Scenarios
We demonstrate a novel approach to bring quick touch interaction on surfaces to Virtual Reality, which is a challenge for current camera-based VR headsets that support free-hand mid-air interaction or physical hand-held controllers for input. In our ...
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A randomized controlled trial on the effects of embedded computer language switching
Polyglot programming, the use of multiple programming languages during the development process, is common practice in modern software development. This study investigates this practice through a randomized controlled trial conducted under the context of ...
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Expanding the Bounds of Seated Virtual Workspaces
Mixed Reality (MR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) headsets can improve upon existing physical multi-display environments by rendering large, ergonomic virtual display spaces whenever and wherever they are needed. However, given the ...
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Optimizing for Happiness and Productivity: Modeling Opportune Moments for Transitions and Breaks at Work
Information workers perform jobs that demand constant multitasking, leading to context switches, productivity loss, stress, and unhappiness. Systems that can mediate task transitions and breaks have the potential to keep people both productive and happy. ...
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ScreenTrack: Using a Visual History of a Computer Screen to Retrieve Documents and Web Pages
Computers are used for various purposes and frequent context switch is inevitable. In this setting, retrieving the documents, files, and web pages that have been used for a task can be a challenge. While modern applications provide a history of recent ...
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Supporting Software Developers' Focused Work on Window-Based Desktops
Software developers, like other information workers, continuously switch tasks and applications to complete their work on their computer. Given the high fragmentation and complexity of their work, staying focused on the relevant pieces of information can ...
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Understanding Personal Productivity: How Knowledge Workers Define, Evaluate, and Reflect on Their Productivity
Productivity tracking tools often determine productivity based on the time interacting with work-related applications. To deconstruct productivity's diverse and nebulous nature, we investigate how knowledge workers conceptualize personal productivity ...
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MessageOnTap: A Suggestive Interface to Facilitate Messaging-related Tasks
Text messages are sometimes prompts that lead to information related tasks, e.g. checking one's schedule, creating reminders, or sharing content. We introduce MessageOnTap, a suggestive inter-face for smartphones that uses the text in a conversation to ...
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Monotasking or Multitasking: Designing for Crowdworkers' Preferences
Crowdworkers receive no formal training for managing their tasks, time or working environment. To develop tools that support such workers, an understanding of their preferences and the constraints they are under is essential. We asked 317 experienced ...
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An Exploration of Speech-Based Productivity Support in the Car
In-car intelligent assistants offer the opportunity to help drivers productively use previously unclaimed time during their commute. However, engaging in secondary tasks can reduce attention on driving and thus may affect road safety. Any interface used ...
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Measuring Response Rate and Increasing Satisfaction in Innovative Environments: The Impact of Feedback
Engineering productivity has been a popular topic of discussion from both an employee and employer perspective. Through rigorous experimentation and multi-methods approach, alongside subjective responses, we saw significant improvements in our ...
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Supporting Workplace Detachment and Reattachment with Conversational Intelligence
Research has shown that productivity is mediated by an individual's ability to detach from their work at the end of the day and reattach with it when they return the next day. In this paper we explore the extent to which structured dialogues, focused on ...
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Sleep Debt in Student Life: Online Attention Focus, Facebook, and Mood
The amount of sleep college students receive has become a pressing societal concern. While studies show that information technology (IT) use affects sleep, here we examine the converse: how sleep duration might affect IT use. We conducted an in situ ...
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To Sign Up, or not to Sign Up?: Maximizing Citizen Science Contribution Rates through Optional Registration
Many citizen science projects ask people to create an account before they participate - some require it. What effect does the registration process have on the number and quality of contributions? We present a controlled study comparing the effects of ...
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Total parser combinators
A monadic parser combinator library which guarantees termination of parsing, while still allowing many forms of left recursion, is described. The library's interface is similar to those of many other parser combinator libraries, with two important ...