Still at the office: designing for physical movement-inclusion during office work
Helena Tobiasson, Anders Hedman, Yngve Sundblad · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2014
In this paper we describe, analyse and reflect onexperiences and knowledge generated from designing forphysical movement integration during office work. Work intraditional modern office settings provides few physicallydemanding tasks. Evidence from research indicates thatsedentary life styles are increasing our risk for developing ahost of diseases and other medical complications.Together with students and through user-centered design,concepts for inviting the body “back to work” weredeveloped. The concepts inspired the design of threephysical movement probes that were explored by officeworkers. The participants were encouraging to the attemptto transform the sedentary nature of office work into morephysically sustainable work. They described their workenvironments as filled with stuff for enhancing physicalactivity but these were seldom used. Integrating physicalmovements in the design of future office work tools mayhave considerable positive effects on public health.