D 2023

Tracking to Success? A Critical Reflection on Workplace Quantified-Self Technologies from a Humanistic Perspective

GERDENITSCH, Cornelia, Till BIEG, Myriam GAITSCH, Philip SCHÖRPF, Manfred TSCHELIGI et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Tracking to Success? A Critical Reflection on Workplace Quantified-Self Technologies from a Humanistic Perspective

Authors

GERDENITSCH, Cornelia, Till BIEG, Myriam GAITSCH, Philip SCHÖRPF, Manfred TSCHELIGI and Simone KRIGLSTEIN (40 Austria, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Oldenburg, Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK '23), p. 1-7, 7 pp. 2023

Publisher

ACM

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14330/23:00131820

Organization unit

Faculty of Informatics

ISBN

979-8-4007-0807-7

DOI

UT WoS

001147740200006

Keywords in English

quantified-self; self-tracking; conditions of worth; entrepreneurial self; gamification; design implications

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 8/4/2024 07:04, RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Self-tracking has become omnipresent in our daily lives. By providing insights into how work practices relate to performance or (physical and mental) health, quantified-self technologies (QST) have also made their way into the world of work. Contemporary QST process personal data from multiple sources to help people to gain a better knowledge about themselves at work. According to humanistic psychology, humans have an initial drive to grow and self-actualize, that is, to become a better version of themselves. A key step towards self-actualization is accepting oneself without meeting certain conditions and thus questioning so called “conditions of worth” (e.g., I am a valued person if I am good at my job). In this article, we discuss possible effects of QST at the workplace. We raise the question, how QST could be either used as a tool to locate personal growth outside the capitalist labor process or, on the contrary, to create conditions of worth and thus promote the “entrepreneurial self” – a self which is driven to constantly improve and therefore vulnerable for self-exploitation. In QST development, design choices determine whether they are more designed toward personal growth outside the capitalist labor process or toward the idea of an entrepreneurial self. Thus, we conclude this article by formulating implications for the design of QST, which we cluster along the actors and purpose of the technology (Who? and Why?), the specifics of the work context (Where?), the temporal aspects of the usage (When?), and the design elements used (How?).