Beyond productivity and efficiency: design tools, methods and frameworks for psychological well-being, and (un)exploited potentials to assist employees at work
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that fostering employees' psychological well-being is linked to several positive outcomes, both for the employee and the organization, and yet, it has rarely been considered as a design goal, especially when it comes to developing digital solutions to assist...
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| description | Research has repeatedly demonstrated that fostering employees' psychological well-being is linked to several positive outcomes, both for the employee and the organization, and yet, it has rarely been considered as a design goal, especially when it comes to developing digital solutions to assist employees in their everyday tasks. In this paper, we take the first steps toward using well-being concepts to (re)design assistants. We motivate the problem by providing an overview of assistance technologies in the industrial context and their current state of development. Next, we elucidate and map the facets of psychological well-being at work, and highlight the importance of workplace eudaimonic well-being. To help designers and researchers adopt it as a design objective, we carried out a literature review to synthesize the state-of-the-art frameworks and methods that have been proposed to incorporate psychological well-being into design. Our investigation reveals that no one framework targets eudaimonic well-being, and more work may be necessary to develop a comprehensive approach that targets the various facets of workplace eudaimonic well-being. Consequently, we discuss challenges and opportunities for developing digital assistance that could foster employees' psychological well-being. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-04b71a586aa945bb92242ca96aa4cfcd2023-08-17T13:09:53ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Computer Science2624-98982023-08-01510.3389/fcomp.2023.11290871129087Beyond productivity and efficiency: design tools, methods and frameworks for psychological well-being, and (un)exploited potentials to assist employees at workHitesh Dhiman0Yutaro Nemoto1Michael Fellmann2Carsten Röcker3Institute Industrial IT, TH OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lemgo, GermanySchool of Economics and Business Administration, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, JapanDepartment of Business Informatics, University of Rostock, Rostock, GermanyInstitute Industrial IT, TH OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lemgo, GermanyResearch has repeatedly demonstrated that fostering employees' psychological well-being is linked to several positive outcomes, both for the employee and the organization, and yet, it has rarely been considered as a design goal, especially when it comes to developing digital solutions to assist employees in their everyday tasks. In this paper, we take the first steps toward using well-being concepts to (re)design assistants. We motivate the problem by providing an overview of assistance technologies in the industrial context and their current state of development. Next, we elucidate and map the facets of psychological well-being at work, and highlight the importance of workplace eudaimonic well-being. To help designers and researchers adopt it as a design objective, we carried out a literature review to synthesize the state-of-the-art frameworks and methods that have been proposed to incorporate psychological well-being into design. Our investigation reveals that no one framework targets eudaimonic well-being, and more work may be necessary to develop a comprehensive approach that targets the various facets of workplace eudaimonic well-being. Consequently, we discuss challenges and opportunities for developing digital assistance that could foster employees' psychological well-being.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1129087/fullassistantsassistance systemspsychological well-beingeudaimoniadesign frameworksdesign methods |
| spellingShingle | Hitesh Dhiman Yutaro Nemoto Michael Fellmann Carsten Röcker Beyond productivity and efficiency: design tools, methods and frameworks for psychological well-being, and (un)exploited potentials to assist employees at work Frontiers in Computer Science assistants assistance systems psychological well-being eudaimonia design frameworks design methods |
| title | Beyond productivity and efficiency: design tools, methods and frameworks for psychological well-being, and (un)exploited potentials to assist employees at work |
| title_full | Beyond productivity and efficiency: design tools, methods and frameworks for psychological well-being, and (un)exploited potentials to assist employees at work |
| title_fullStr | Beyond productivity and efficiency: design tools, methods and frameworks for psychological well-being, and (un)exploited potentials to assist employees at work |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond productivity and efficiency: design tools, methods and frameworks for psychological well-being, and (un)exploited potentials to assist employees at work |
| title_short | Beyond productivity and efficiency: design tools, methods and frameworks for psychological well-being, and (un)exploited potentials to assist employees at work |
| title_sort | beyond productivity and efficiency design tools methods and frameworks for psychological well being and un exploited potentials to assist employees at work |
| topic | assistants assistance systems psychological well-being eudaimonia design frameworks design methods |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1129087/full |
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