Paper Info
Title
Wearable health devices in the workplace: The importance of habits to sustain the use
Abstract
The use of wearable health devices, such as activity trackers or biosensors, offers great potential for managing one's health levels. Since they are affordable and widely available, organizations are also taking advantage of these systems (referred to as physiolytics), seeing an opportunity to handle some health-related challenges in the workplace. However, once physiolytics are implemented in the workspace, organizations face difficulties in sustaining employees' participation. This is a major problem because, to generate data that can contribute to personal health empowerment, physiolytics need to be used in a continuous manner. Habits are recognized as significant factors in determining sustained use of physiolytics, but there are no precise investigations on how organizations can have an impact on this matter. Because habits are highly contextdependent, organizations have the opportunity to create favorable conditions so that participating employees develop a habituation towards the use of physiolytics. Accordingly, in this paper, we conduct a narrative review to critically evaluate reported evidence and, then, formulate concrete propositions to support wearable health devices' habituation. We therefore aim to provide practitioners with upstream interventions to concretely help them in increasing the success of physiolytics' implementation as well as open the way for further investigations in this strand of research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/CBI.2019.00048
2019 IEEE 21st Conference on Business Informatics (CBI)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
wearable health devices,physiolytics,habits,IS use,IS sustained use
Conference
02
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2378-1963
978-1-7281-0651-9
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefan Stepanovic100.34
Tobias Mettler222026.14
Manuel Schmidt-Kraepelin300.34
Scott Thiebes465.25
Ali Sunyaev529646.83