Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study

Huang, Yitong; Benford, Steve; Hendrickx, Hilde; Treloar, Rob; Blake, Holly

Abstract

Research has suggested regular breaks in sedentary office work are im-portant for health, wellbeing and long-term productivity. Although many comput-erized break reminders exist, few are based on user needs and requirements as determined by formative research. This paper reports empirical findings from a diary-probed interview study with 20 office workers on their perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work. This work makes two contributions to the Persuasive Technology (PT) community: a diagnosis of the full range of determinants and levers for changing office work break behaviours; a demonstration of applying the Behaviour Change Wheel (BCW), an intervention development framework originating from Health chology, to elicit theory-based design rec-ommendations for a potential PT.

Citation

Huang, Y., Benford, S., Hendrickx, H., Treloar, R., & Blake, H. (2017). Office workers' perceived barriers and facilitators to taking regular micro-breaks at work: a diary-probed interview study. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 10171, 149-161. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55134-0_12

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 16, 2017
• Publication Date: Mar 9, 2017
• Deposit Date: Mar 14, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 14, 2017
• Journal: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Electronic ISSN: 0302-9743
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10171
• Pages: 149-161
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55134-0_12
• Keywords: Workplace sedentary behaviour, Requirement elicitation method
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/849314
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-55134-0_12
• Additional Information: The final publication is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-55134-0_12; ; Chapter in: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference, PERSUASIVE 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 4–6, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-55133-3 (Print) 978-3-319-55134-0 (Online)