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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

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Authors

Yitong Huang

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STEVE BENFORD steve.benford@nottingham.ac.uk
Dunford Chair in Computer Science

Hilde Hendrickx

Rob Treloar

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HOLLY BLAKE holly.blake@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Behavioural Medicine



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)
Contract Date Mar 14, 2017

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