TY - GEN
T1 - Reinforcing and Reclaiming the Home: Co-speculating Future Technologies to Support Remote and Hybrid Work
AU - Cho, Janghee
AU - Choi, Dasom
AU - Yu, Junnan
AU - Voida, Stephen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/5/11
Y1 - 2024/5/11
N2 - With the rise of remote and hybrid work after COVID-19, there is growing interest in understanding remote workers' experiences and designing digital technology for the future of work within the field of HCI. To gain a holistic understanding of how remote workers navigate the blurred boundary between work and home and how designers can better support their boundary work, we employ humanistic geography as a lens. We engaged in co-speculative design practices with 11 remote workers in the US, exploring how future technologies might sustainably enhance participants' work and home lives in remote/hybrid arrangements. We present the imagined technologies that resulted from this process, which both reinforce remote workers' existing boundary work practices through everyday routines/rituals and reclaim the notion of home by fostering independence, joy, and healthy relationships. Our discussions with participants inform implications for designing digital technologies that promote sustainability in the future remote/hybrid work landscape.
AB - With the rise of remote and hybrid work after COVID-19, there is growing interest in understanding remote workers' experiences and designing digital technology for the future of work within the field of HCI. To gain a holistic understanding of how remote workers navigate the blurred boundary between work and home and how designers can better support their boundary work, we employ humanistic geography as a lens. We engaged in co-speculative design practices with 11 remote workers in the US, exploring how future technologies might sustainably enhance participants' work and home lives in remote/hybrid arrangements. We present the imagined technologies that resulted from this process, which both reinforce remote workers' existing boundary work practices through everyday routines/rituals and reclaim the notion of home by fostering independence, joy, and healthy relationships. Our discussions with participants inform implications for designing digital technologies that promote sustainability in the future remote/hybrid work landscape.
KW - boundary work
KW - future of work
KW - work-from-home
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85194900351&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3613904.3642381
DO - 10.1145/3613904.3642381
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85194900351
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1
EP - 28
BT - CHI 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Sytems, CHI 2024
Y2 - 11 May 2024 through 16 May 2024
ER -