User adoption of the Worktivity mobile app to help reduce occupational sedentary behaviour in an office environment

Matias Garcia-Constantino; Chris Nugent; Aoife Stephenson; Suzanne M. McDonough; Marie H. Murphy; Jacqueline L. Mair

User adoption of the Worktivity mobile app to help reduce occupational sedentary behaviour in an office environment

Matias Garcia-Constantino, Chris Nugent, Aoife Stephenson, Suzanne M. McDonough, Marie H. Murphy, Jacqueline L. Mair

School of Computing

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

In this paper we introduce the Worktivity mobile app as a potential solution to help reduce occupational sitting in an office environment. Worktivity functions by sending hourly reminders to stand up or move in addition to showing factual information related to the benefits of being active within the office environment. The Worktivity app was used over a period of 8 weeks by 37 participants aged between 18 and 65 years old from two private office worksites in Northern Ireland. Results demonstrated how users responded to the reminders over the duration of the study with mean acknowledgement rates of 66.06% and 51.57% when using the app and when using the app with a standing desk, respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication status	Published - Jul 2018
Event	32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI) - Belfast, United Kingdom Duration: 4 Jul 2018 → 6 Jul 2018 http://Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI)

Conference

Conference	32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI)
Country	United Kingdom
City	Belfast
Period	4/07/18 → 6/07/18
Internet address	http://Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI)

Keywords

Occupational Sedentary Behaviour
Occupational Sitting
Technology Adoption
Digital Technology

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Garcia-Constantino, M., Nugent, C., Stephenson, A., McDonough, S. M., Murphy, M. H., & Mair, J. L. (2018). User adoption of the Worktivity mobile app to help reduce occupational sedentary behaviour in an office environment. In Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference Association for Computing Machinery. https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=b33de3c7-e3fd-4585-840c-ff7a5e7625fb

Garcia-Constantino, Matias ; Nugent, Chris ; Stephenson, Aoife ; McDonough, Suzanne M. ; Murphy, Marie H. ; Mair, Jacqueline L. / User adoption of the Worktivity mobile app to help reduce occupational sedentary behaviour in an office environment. Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018.

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User adoption of the Worktivity mobile app to help reduce occupational sedentary behaviour in an office environment. / Garcia-Constantino, Matias ; Nugent, Chris; Stephenson, Aoife; McDonough, Suzanne M.; Murphy, Marie H.; Mair, Jacqueline L.

Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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