Rainmaker: A tangible work-companion for the personal office space

Sujay Shalawadi; Anas Alnayef; Niels Van Berkel; Jesper Kjeldskov; Florian Echtler

doi:10.1145/3447526.3472032

Rainmaker: A tangible work-companion for the personal office space

Sujay Shalawadi, Anas Alnayef, Niels Van Berkel, Jesper Kjeldskov, Florian Echtler

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Abstract

Routines are an important element of day-to-day work life, supporting people in structuring their day around required tasks. Effectively managing these routines is, however, experienced as challenging by many - an issue further amplified by the current work from home lockdown measures. In this paper we present Rainmaker, a tangible device to support people in their working life in the context of their own homes. We evaluate and iterate on our prototype through two qualitative studies, spanning respectively three days (N = 11) and 15 days (N = 2). Our results highlight the perceived advantages of the use of a primarily physical rather than digital tool for work support, allowing users to stay focused on their tasks and reflect on their work achievements. We present lessons for future work in this area and publicly release the software and hardware used in the construction of Rainmaker.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
Editors	Jessica Cauchard, Marcos Serrano
Place of Publication	New York NY USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450383288
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472032
Publication status	Published - 2021
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 2021 - Online, France Duration: 27 Sept 2021 → 1 Oct 2021 Conference number: 23rd https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3447526 (Proceedings)

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Conference	International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 2021
Abbreviated title	MobileHCI 2021
Country/Territory	France
Period	27/09/21 → 1/10/21
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3447526 (Proceedings)

Keywords

Multimodality
Reward
Self Reflection
Work from Home
Work Routines

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Shalawadi, S., Alnayef, A., Van Berkel, N., Kjeldskov, J., & Echtler, F. (2021). Rainmaker: A tangible work-companion for the personal office space. In J. Cauchard, & M. Serrano (Eds.), Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction Article 39 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472032

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Shalawadi, S, Alnayef, A, Van Berkel, N, Kjeldskov, J & Echtler, F 2021, Rainmaker: A tangible work-companion for the personal office space. in J Cauchard & M Serrano (eds), Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction., 39, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York NY USA, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services 2021, France, 27/09/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472032

Rainmaker: A tangible work-companion for the personal office space. / Shalawadi, Sujay; Alnayef, Anas; Van Berkel, Niels et al.
Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - The ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction. ed. / Jessica Cauchard; Marcos Serrano. New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021. 39.

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