Wearables in the Work Environment

Description

There is already a wide range of different wearable tracking devices (“wearables”) on the market and it is growing rapidly. Considering current research (Swan, 2013; Marcengo, 2013 & Lee, 2014) wearables such as smartwatches or bracelets for fitness tracking are becoming even more popular and could enrich psychological research in providing less reactive data. The aim of the current field study was to employ wearables in the work environment in order to determine their surplus value as alternatives to self-report measures in empirical research. The field study was implemented as a project of occupational health promotion to provide a health-feedback by combining data from two different sources: 1. data from a fitness tracker bracelet and 2. data from two short online surveys. A total sample of N=104 white-collar workers of a public institution in Austria participated in the study. As the field study is currently at it’s final stage first results will be presented.

Period	26 Sept 2019
Event title	11th session of the Section of Work, Organizational and Economic Psychology of the DGPs
Event type	Conference
Location	GermanyShow on map