Methods for monitoring work-life balance in a digital world

Chong, Ming Ki; Whittle, Jon; Rashid, Umar; Ang, Chee Siang; Whiting, Rebecca; Roby, Helen; Chamakiotis, Petros and Symon, Gillian (2014). Methods for monitoring work-life balance in a digital world. In: Socio-Technical Practices and Work-Home Boundaries, 23 Sep 2014, Toronto, ACM.

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Abstract

Digital technologies - smart phones, email, social networking, etc. - are fundamentally changing our relationship with work. Digital technologies enable us to be always connected. However, the question remains as to how digital technologies affect our work-life balance. In this position paper, we report on some methods we are using to study how to continuously monitor and observe work-life balance, and discuss the advantages/disadvantages of these methods. Work-life balance is a relatively under-explored area in the quantified self literature; this paper therefore contributes to broader discussions on quantified self but from a domain that has received little attention to date.

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• Item ORO ID
• 41332
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Creativity Greenhouse: Digital Brain Switch	EP/K025201/1	EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

• Extra Information
• MobileHCI '14
  16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
  23-26 September 2014
• Keywords
• work-life balance; digital technologies; quantified self; work home boundary management; HCI; wellbeing
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
  Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business
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• © 2014 The Authors
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• • http://mobilehci.acm.org/2014/(Other)
• Depositing User
• Helen Roby