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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.

Authors

Matias Garcia-Constantino

Chris Nugent

Aoife Stephenson

Suzanne M. McDonough

Marie H. Murphy

Jacqueline L. Mair



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

Citation

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 Conference Proceedings of HCI 2018. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.175

Conference Name 32nd Human Computer Interaction Conference
Conference Location Belfast, UK
Start Date Jul 4, 2018
End Date Jul 6, 2018
Acceptance Date Jun 13, 2018
Publication Date Jul 2, 2018
Deposit Date Jan 4, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher BCS Learning & Development Ltd.
Series ISSN 1477-9358
Book Title Conference Proceedings of HCI 2018
DOI https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.175
Keywords Occupational Sedentary Behaviour, Occupational Sitting, Technology Adoption, Digital Technology,
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1288407
Related Public URLs https://ewic.bcs.org/upload/pdf/ewic_hci18_wip_paper86.pdf

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