Cornelia Gerdenitsch

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology | ait

In the light of demographic change, Active and Assisted Living (AAL) technologies promise to support older adults in their everyday lives and promote a self-determined lifestyle. However, empirical evidence for their effectiveness is fragmented and mixed. Thus, literature has called for more rigorous studies – including randomized controlled trials...

Combinations of concentrated work and interactions are facilitated by office environments such as activity-based flexible offices (A-FOs). A-FOs are characterized by activity-based workspaces, an open-plan layout, and desk sharing. Although there is a growing enthusiasm for replacing cellular offices with A-FOs, the effects of such changes on offic...

The growing demand for personalized products is changing the manufacturing industry and requires flexible assembly instructions. In this context, augmented reality (AR)-based digital instructions represent a potential solution. However, empirical evidence of their effectiveness in terms of performance, user experience, and work experience remains f...

Zusammenfassung Die Einführung digitaler Technologien in Organisationen verändert Arbeitspraktiken und bietet das Potenzial, geschlechtsspezifische Machtstrukturen zu verändern. Allerdings werden in der betrieblichen Praxis durch die männlich dominierte Technologieentwicklung geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheiten häufig eher reproduziert als abgeba...

With the increasing importance of cybersecurity in organizations, it becomes crucial that employees behave securely. In the present article, we investigate the interplay of antecedents on this behavior. We conceptualize cybersecurity behavior through the components of compliance and participation and investigate the relationship between security kn...

Making, that is, the hobbyist and technologically based creation of things, has been associated with many benefits. It is considered to contribute to the development of skills and to enable participation in innovation, and even democracy. At the same time, institutionalized making (in makerspaces, FabLabs) is known to be exclusive as members of suc...

The interest, the potential, and also the technical development in artificial intelligence assistants shows us that these will play an essential role in the future of work. Exploring the interaction and communication between human and artificial intelligence (AI) assistants forms the basis for the development of trustworthy and meaningful AI-based...

The idea of inclusion in the sense of participatory access to educational opportunities is widely acknowledged and implemented within the pedagogical discourse. Nevertheless, ensuring social participation of students with and without special education needs in learning situations continues to be challenging. The present study examines promoting and...

This article examines managerial control practices in a public bureaucracy at the moment of introducing remote work as part with a new ways of working (NWW) project. The qualitative study builds on 38 interviews with supervisors and subordinates conducted before the advent of COVID-19. By interpreting interviewees’ conversations about current and a...

Purpose-The deployment of assistive technologies affects well-being and productivity at industrial workplaces. Augmented reality (AR) is one of these technologies that has become increasingly deployed in manufacturing facilities to assist employees on the shopfloor. This paper aims to shed light on users' experiences with AR-based assistance system...

This paper presents assistance needs in production environments for assembly processes from a workers’ perspective, i.e. what kind of assistance assembly workers would need to enhance their everyday work experience and to better cope with challenges coming along with an increasing digitization in these work environments. Within a large-scale empiri...

This paper presents a study investigating the user acceptance (i.e. the perceived ease of use, willingness to use the system over time, and perceived usefulness) of a smart head-mounted device that can be used as assistive technology for maintenance and assembly. In particular, we focus on the head-mounted display named HMT-1 from RealWear. The uni...

While the effects of gamification have been demonstrated in various fields, research on gamification in the work context is still limited. Gamification can, however, be used as a strategy in companies, for example, to strengthen enjoyment and productivity in the workplace. To investigate this effect, we conducted an online survey with 114 employees...

Organisations differ in the acceptance of playfulness at the workplace. While some value playful approaches as a means of increasing employees' motivation, others are convinced that playing games is not appropriate in a working context. Depending on whether playful approaches are accepted and supported by management and employees or not, we argue t...

In Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research, awareness for the relevance of diversity of users is increasing. In this work, we analyze whether the articulated need for more diversity-sensitive research led indeed to a higher consideration of diversity in HCI research. Based on a comprehensive collection of diversity dimensions, we present results...

Technologische Entwicklungen verändern die Art, wie wir leben, insbesondere die Art und Weise, wie wir arbeiten. Innerhalb dieses Kapitels werden die Besonderheiten digitaler Arbeit beschrieben und die Herausforderungen für MitarbeiterInnen diskutiert. Beispielsweise führt die digitale Transformation von Arbeit dazu, dass MitarbeiterInnen einer Ban...

Die Arbeitswelt hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten so stark gewandelt, dass nun Generationen in einer Organisation aufeinandertreffen, die ganz unterschiedliche Arbeitsweisen kennengelernt haben. Das Arbeiten im heutigen digitalen Zeitalter ist besonders durch die intensive Nutzung von digitalen Technologien und durch eine (dadurch bedingte) erhöh...

Veränderungen, die durch die Digitalisierung entstehen, stellen das Management von Organisationen vor Herausforderungen. Dieses ist nämlich nicht nur gefordert sich mit der räumlichen Gestaltung von Arbeitsumgebungen auseinanderzusetzen, sondern auch mit Themen der Führung sowie mit der Gestaltung des Veränderungsprozesses. Die Frage stellt sich be...

Die Frage nach der optimalen Gestaltung von Arbeitsumgebungen wird innerhalb unterschiedlicher Disziplinen erforscht. Neben der (Innen-)Architektur, die sich mit der Gestaltung von Räumen und Bürogebäuden befasst, versucht auch die Psychologie das Erleben und Verhalten in Arbeitsumgebungen zu verstehen, zu erklären und vorherzusagen. Der Begriff Ar...

This chapter discusses psychological need satisfaction in the context of flexible working arrangements. The first section of the chapter provides current data on the prevalence of flexible working in Europe before defining three forms of flexible working arrangements. More concretely, an arrangement where workers have flexibility in deciding when t...

Coworking spaces are shared office environments for independent professionals. Such spaces have been increasing rapidly throughout the world, and provide, in addition to basic business infrastructure, the opportunity for social interaction. This article explores social interaction in coworking spaces and reports the results of two studies. Study 1...

As part of daily interactions humor is an integral element of work relationships with consequences for well-being or turnover intentions. However, its adequate assessment in the work context has yet to be improved. While the Humor Styles Questionnaire (HSQ; Martin et al. 2003. Individual differences in uses of humor and their relation to psychologi...

Supported by media technologies, today's employees can increasingly decide when and where to work. The present study examines positive and negative aspects of this temporal and spatial flexibility, and the perceptions of control in these situations based on propositions of self-determination theory. Using an exploratory approach we conducted semi-s...

Modern societies are currently undergoing accelerated social change (see also Chap. 4). In this chapter, we are interested in whether these societal changes influence individual working conditions. More specifically, it is argued that the speeding up of production, consumption, and decision processes due to the implementation of new information and...

Besides saving energy, using it at the right time (i.e. when there is a supply surplus, and the power is produced by sustainable power sources such as hydroelectricity or wind) is an important possibility to achieve positive effects for the environment. To enable the user to align their behavior with the dynamics of the energy generation they need...

Adaptive scaffolding has been proposed as an efficient means for supporting self-directed learning both in educational as well as in adaptive learning systems research. However, the effects of adaptation on self-directed learning and the differential contributions of different adaptation models have not been systematically examined. In this paper,...