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

这项“人类技术前沿的未来工作”（FW-HTF）规划项目将推进有关在工业工作场所接受和使用可穿戴健康和性能监测技术的基础知识。尽管健身追踪手表等可穿戴设备被消费者广泛使用，但在工业制造业中尚未广泛接受可穿戴设备。可穿戴设备可以提高工人的安全性，帮助早期检测潜在的重复性运动损伤，并提供信息，从而实现更安全、更高效的操作。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（包括与隐私和道德问题相关的风险因素和缓解措施）的基础研究。该项目从工人、管理层和组织的角度调查真实的和感知的障碍。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，促进国民健康、繁荣和福利。该项目将确定可穿戴技术在工业工作场所集成的关键障碍，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、舒适性、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管理人员，来自社区大学学生和教师的未来工人，以及市，县和州一级的劳动力发展委员会和组织。将通过定性数据编码对反馈进行分析。其目标是开发一种新的技术接受模型，帮助所有利益相关者理解技术接受与成本效益、安全性、保密性、风险、可用性、舒适性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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.