{"id":674523,"date":"2020-07-12T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-research-item&p=674523"},"modified":"2020-07-30T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:44:11","slug":"envisioning-new-productivity-tools-for-domestic-information-work-environments","status":"publish","type":"msr-research-item","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/envisioning-new-productivity-tools-for-domestic-information-work-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"Envisioning New Productivity Tools for Domestic Information Work Environments"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The home will serve as a primary workplace for information workers for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus pandemic. This fundamental change in the context of work suggests that HCI and CSCW researchers will need to more intentionally focus on exploring how to design productivity tools for domestic environments. While past work has examined productivity and well-being in the context of traditional offices, few studies have examined these ideas in the home. In this position paper, we propose a new way of designing productivity tools for the home in light of previous research on domestic technologies, productivity tracking tools in the office setting, and pluralistic notions of productivity. We argue that productivity tools should be designed to (1) help information workers critically reflect on their domestic and work-centric time management practices in order to build their own pluralistic perspective on productivity, and (2) to incorporate multiple temporalities.<\/p>\n

Keywords<\/h3>\n

reflection, productivity, well-being, information worker, working from home, domestic technology, self-tracking, temporality<\/p>\n