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Title | ||
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Understanding Personal Productivity - How Knowledge Workers Define, Evaluate, and Reflect on Their Productivity. |
Abstract | ||
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Productivity tracking tools often determine productivity based on the time interacting with work-related applications. To deconstruct productivity's diverse and nebulous nature, we investigate how knowledge workers conceptualize personal productivity and delimit productive tasks in both work and non-work contexts. We report a 2-week diary study followed by a semi-structured interview with 24 knowledge workers. Participants captured productive activities and provided the rationale for why the activities were assessed to be productive. They reported a wide range of productive activities beyond typical desk-bound work-ranging from having a personal conversation with dad to getting a haircut. We found six themes that characterize the productivity assessment-work product, time management, worker's state, attitude toward work, impact & benefit, and compound task and identified how participants interleaved multiple facets when assessing their productivity. We discuss how these findings could inform the design of a comprehensive productivity tracking system that covers a wide range of productive activities.
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Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1145/3290605.3300845 | CHI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
diary study, knowledge worker, personal informatics, productivity, productivity tracking, self-monitoring, self-tracking | Personal informatics,Conversation,Knowledge worker,Computer science,Haircut,Knowledge management,Tracking system,Human–computer interaction,Time management,Self tracking,Self-monitoring | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-4503-5970-2 | 3 | 0.37 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youngho Kim | 1 | 53 | 11.10 |
| Eun Kyoung Choe | 2 | 518 | 38.00 |
| Bongshin Lee | 3 | 2738 | 143.95 |
| Jinwook Seo | 4 | 586 | 52.89 |