FW-HTF-P: Addressing the Wearable Technology Acceptance Gap for Industrial Workers Performing Repetitive Motion Work

FW-HTF-P：解决从事重复性运动工作的产业工人对可穿戴技术的接受差距

• 批准号: 2026398
• 负责人: Reuben Burch
• 金额: $ 12.8万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-01 至 2022-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2026398&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FW; HTF; Addressing; Wearable; Technology

This Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) planning project will advance fundamental knowledge concerning the acceptance and use of wearable health and performance monitoring technologies in the industrial workplace. Although wearables such as fitness tracking watches are used extensively by consumers, there has not been widespread acceptance of wearables within industrial manufacturing. Wearable devices can enhance worker safety, assist in the early detection of potential repetitive motion injuries, and provide information that allows safer and more efficient operations. But they can also present privacy and ethical risks. This project involves fundamental research into potential reasons for non-acceptance of wearable health and performance monitoring technology, challenges faced when wearables are used, risk factors and mitigations, including those related to privacy and ethical concerns. The project investigates real and perceived barriers from the perspectives of workers, management, and organizations. The project will promote the progress of science and advance national health, prosperity and welfare by contributing new knowledge and new conceptual frameworks related to wearable device acceptance and use in manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics. The project will identify key barriers to wearable technology integration in industrial workplaces, and critical differences between individuals and organizations in adopting new technology. A set of focus group interviews and round table discussions will identify stakeholder perceptions of cost effectiveness, safety and risk, usability, comfort, training and education, implementation, and technological acceptance. Stakeholder groups include workers and managers from industrial manufacturing businesses, future workers drawn from communiversity students and faculty, and workforce development boards and organizations at the city, county, and state levels. Feedback will be analyzed through qualitative data coding. The goal is to develop a novel technology acceptance model that will help all stakeholders understand the complex relationships between technological acceptance and perceptions of cost effectiveness, safety, security, privacy, risk, usability, comfort, and implementation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这一人类技术前沿(FW-HTF)规划项目的未来工作将促进关于可穿戴健康和性能监测技术在工业工作场所的接受和使用的基础知识。尽管健康跟踪手表等可穿戴设备被消费者广泛使用，但在工业制造业中，可穿戴设备尚未被广泛接受。可穿戴设备可以增强工作人员的安全，帮助及早发现潜在的重复运动损伤，并提供信息，使操作更安全、更高效。但它们也可能带来隐私和道德风险。该项目涉及对不接受可穿戴健康和性能监测技术的潜在原因、使用可穿戴设备时面临的挑战、风险因素和缓解措施(包括与隐私和伦理问题有关的因素)的基础研究。该项目从工人、管理层和组织的角度调查实际和感知的障碍。该项目将通过贡献与可穿戴设备在制造、仓储和物流中的接受和使用相关的新知识和新概念框架，促进科学进步，促进国家健康、繁荣和福利。该项目将确定在工业工作场所整合可穿戴技术的关键障碍，以及个人和组织在采用新技术方面的关键差异。一系列焦点小组访谈和圆桌讨论将确定利益相关者对成本效益、安全性和风险、可用性、舒适度、培训和教育、实施和技术接受度的看法。利益相关者群体包括来自工业制造企业的工人和经理，来自社区大学学生和教师的未来工人，以及市、县和州各级的劳动力发展委员会和组织。反馈将通过定性数据编码进行分析。目标是开发一种新的技术接受模型，帮助所有利益相关者了解技术接受与成本效益、安全性、安全性、隐私、风险、可用性、舒适度和实施之间的复杂关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Wearable Device Acceptance in Manufacturing: An Industrial Case Study

制造业中的可穿戴设备验收：工业案例研究

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Seattle WA
• 作者: Strawderman, L.

The applicability of existing acceptance models for enterprise organizational technology acceptance of wearables

现有验收模型对企业组织可穿戴设备技术验收的适用性

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2022.103381
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics
• 影响因子: 3.1
• 作者: Strawderman, Lesley;Jose, Bailey;Burch, Reuben;Warren, Shane;Taylor, Courtney;Ball, John;Freeman, Charles;Chander, Harish
• 通讯作者: Chander, Harish