Creativity Greenhouse: Digital Epiphanies

创意温室：数字顿悟

• 批准号: EP/K025392/1
• 负责人: Anna Cox
• 金额: $ 24.86万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FK025392%2F1
• 关键词: Creativity; Greenhouse; Digital; Epiphanies

The advances in technology in recent years have had many positive effects on the ways in which people can combine work and personal life. For example, being able to access email via a smartphone means that many can work from home, or work a flexible work pattern that successfully fits around caring responsibilities. However, the resulting "always-online" culture in which people expect almost instant responses to email messages, brings stresses and strains to those who feel under pressure to respond immediately and be available on a 24/7 basis. The default settings on many smartphones mean that owners of such devices are frequently alerted by beeps and vibrations to new messages via an array of communication channels. Such irresistible interruptions result in friends and family complaining that the smartphone owner is not always mentally present despite being physically present. Such situations are so common that the term 'Crackberry' has entered common parlance to refer to the excessive use of the Blackberry smartphone by its users. In addition to supporting modern work-life balance practices, new technologies and their specific design characteristics therefore also present challenges for those seeking an acceptable or satisfactory work-life balance.Despite widespread and proliferating debates about the impacts of digital technologies on work-life balance, few empirical studies have explored how these technologies are being used and what impact their use is having on people's work and personal lives. This project seeks to enhance our understanding of the paradoxical and double-edged effects that new technologies and digital practices are having on work-life balance through two central objectives.First, it will explore the impact of a range of digital technologies and practices on work-life balance across a range of individuals and households. We will investigate: How are people using smartphones, tablets and desk-based computers at home and at work, and how can these technologies both support and challenge people in creating and maintaining a satisfactory work-life balance? Are new technologies having negative effects on work-life balance? What technological and other strategies are people developing to manage these effects, and how successful do they feel they have been? Are people seeking to change the ways in which they use technology, and balance work and life, in response to perceived negative effects? What events and epiphanies in their lives cause them to actively change their digital and work-life practices and behaviours? And to what extent are some people seeking to change their practices in search of 'simple, sustainable and slow living'?Second, the study will test whether existing technologies can be used to support and enable reflection on technological and work-life practices, and to bring about sustainable changes in practices. We are interested in exploring people's awareness and behaviours in relation to both their general technology practices (e.g. what percentage of their work time is spent on what they may regard as 'non-productive' activities) and their specific practices with regards to their email habits (e.g. when, where, and how often they check email). We will investigate whether and how existing software tools can promote deep reflection on time usage and work-life balance issues, and how such technologies may be used to induce what we are calling 'digital epiphanies': moments in people's lives where they pause to reflect on and seek change in their work-life balance and digital practices. We will also implement new tools that aim to support new email habits such as checking for new messages less frequently and reducing the number of messages composed and sent with the aim of providing respondents with a greater sense of control over their digital practices and the perceived expectations of others regarding immediate responses. This may in turn have a positive influence on work-life balance.

近年来技术的进步对人们将联合收割机工作和个人生活结合起来的方式产生了许多积极的影响。例如，能够通过智能手机访问电子邮件意味着许多人可以在家工作，或者以灵活的工作模式工作，成功地适应照顾责任。然而，由此产生的“始终在线”文化，人们期望几乎立即回复电子邮件，这给那些感到立即回复并24/7随时可用的压力的人带来了压力和压力。许多智能手机上的默认设置意味着这些设备的所有者经常通过一系列通信渠道通过哔哔声和振动来提醒新消息。这种无法抗拒的干扰导致朋友和家人抱怨智能手机的拥有者尽管身体上存在，但并不总是精神上存在。这种情况是如此普遍，以至于“Crackberry”一词已经成为一种常见的说法，指的是用户过度使用黑莓智能手机。除了支持现代工作与生活的平衡实践外，新技术及其特定的设计特征也因此对那些寻求可接受或令人满意的工作与生活平衡的人提出了挑战。尽管关于数字技术对工作与生活平衡的影响的辩论广泛而扩散，很少有实证研究探讨这些技术是如何被使用的，以及它们的使用对人们的工作和个人生活产生了什么影响。该项目旨在通过两个核心目标，加深我们对新技术和数字实践对工作与生活平衡的矛盾和双刃效应的理解。首先，它将探讨一系列数字技术和实践对一系列个人和家庭的工作与生活平衡的影响。我们将调查：人们如何在家里和工作中使用智能手机、平板电脑和台式电脑，这些技术如何支持和挑战人们创造和维持令人满意的工作与生活平衡？新技术是否对工作与生活的平衡产生了负面影响？人们正在开发哪些技术和其他策略来管理这些影响，他们觉得自己有多成功？人们是否在寻求改变他们使用技术的方式，平衡工作和生活，以应对感知到的负面影响？他们生活中的哪些事件和顿悟使他们积极改变他们的数字和工作生活实践和行为？有些人在多大程度上寻求改变他们的做法，以寻求“简单，可持续和慢生活”？第二，这项研究将检验现有技术是否可用于支持和促进对技术和工作-生活做法的反思，并实现可持续的做法变革。我们感兴趣的是探索人们的意识和行为与他们的一般技术实践（例如，他们的工作时间的百分比是花在他们可能认为是“非生产性”的活动）和他们的具体做法，他们的电子邮件习惯（例如，何时，何地，多久他们检查电子邮件）。我们将研究现有的软件工具是否以及如何促进对时间使用和工作生活平衡问题的深刻反思，以及如何使用这些技术来诱导我们所说的“数字顿悟”：人们生活中的时刻，他们停下来反思并寻求改变他们的工作生活平衡和数字实践。我们还将实施旨在支持新的电子邮件习惯的新工具，例如减少检查新邮件的频率，减少撰写和发送的邮件数量，旨在让受访者对自己的数字实践有更大的控制感，并了解其他人对即时回复的预期。这反过来可能对工作与生活的平衡产生积极影响。

项目成果

Switch on to games: Can digital games aid post-work recovery?

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2013.12.006
• 发表时间: 2014-08-01
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES
• 影响因子: 5.4
• 作者: Collins, Emily;Cox, Anna L.
• 通讯作者: Cox, Anna L.

Too Much Email, Too Much Checking

太多的电子邮件，太多的检查

• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Habits in HCI Workshop Proceedings, British HCI'13
• 作者: Brumby, D

Out of Work, Out of Mind? Smartphone Use and Work-Life Boundaries

• DOI: 10.4018/ijmhci.2015070105
• 发表时间: 2015-07-01
• 期刊: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOBILE HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
• 影响因子: 1.6
• 作者: Emily, I. M.;Cox, Anna L.;Wootton, Ruby
• 通讯作者: Wootton, Ruby

Email management and work-home boundaries

电子邮件管理和工作家庭界限

• DOI: 10.1145/2628363.2634267
• 发表时间: 2014
• 作者: Cecchinato M

How to Manage Your Inbox: Is a Once a Day Strategy Best?

如何管理收件箱：每天一次的策略是最好的吗？

• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: Proceedings of British HCI'13
• 作者: Bradley, A