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.Comment: 5 pages, to be published in Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing System