Positive Work Practices. Opportunities and Challenges in Designing Meaningful Work-related Technology

Abstract

Work is a rich source of meaning. However, beyond organizational changes, most approaches in the research field of Meaningful Work neglected the power of work-related technology to increase meaning. Using two cases as examples, this paper proposes a wellbeing-driven approach to the design of work-related technology. Despite the positive results of our cases, we argue that the use of technology as a means of increasing meaning in the workplace is still in its infancy.

arXiv comment5 pages, to be published in Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems