Organizational probes: exploring playful interactions in work environment

Authors:
Dhaval Vyas;Anton Eliëns;Marek R. van de Watering;Gerrit C. van der Veer
Affiliations:
University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands;Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Venue:
ECCE '08 Proceedings of the 15th European conference on Cognitive ergonomics: the ergonomics of cool interaction
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Playfulness, with non-intrusive elements, can be considered a useful resource for enhancing social awareness and community building within work organizations. Taking inspirations from the cultural probes approach, we developed organizational probes as a set of investigation tools that could provide useful information about employees' everyday playful experiences within their work organizations. In an academic work environment, we applied our organizational probes over a period of three weeks. Based on the collected data we developed two design concepts for playful technologies in work environments.