Mood Squeezer: Lightening up the workplace through playful and lightweight interactions

Sarah Gallacher; Jenny O'Connor; Jon Bird; Yvonne Rogers; Licia Capra; Daniel Harrison; Paul Marshall

doi:10.1145/2675133.2675170

Mood Squeezer: Lightening up the workplace through playful and lightweight interactions

Sarah Gallacher, Jenny O'Connor, Jon Bird, Yvonne Rogers, Licia Capra, Daniel Harrison, Paul Marshall

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Abstract

Many companies would like to redesign their workspaces to make them more pleasant and even fun places to work in. An assumption is it will result in social and economic benefits. However, it can be difficult to achieve because of cost, level of disruption and regulations. We present an alternative approach that provides an injection of playfulness into "drab" office buildings. A lightweight technology intervention was designed-Mood Squeezer-that asks people to reflect on their mood by squeezing a colored ball from a box set. The squeezes are mirrored back as an aggregate colorful visualization on a public floor display. An in-The-wild study showed how this intervention was successful at getting people to squeeze their mood, leading to a diversity of conversations throughout the building. We discuss how this lightweight approach to office augmentation can provide new opportunities for opening up a "closed" workplace.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	891-902
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450329224
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675170
Publication status	Published - 28 Feb 2015
Event	18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 - BC, Canada Duration: 14 Mar 2015 → 18 Mar 2015

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Conference	18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015
Country/Territory	Canada
City	BC
Period	14/03/15 → 18/03/15

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In the wild
Mood
Physical computing
Playful technology
Public visualization
Tangible interface
Work

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Gallacher, S., O'Connor, J., Bird, J., Rogers, Y., Capra, L., Harrison, D., & Marshall, P. (2015). Mood Squeezer: Lightening up the workplace through playful and lightweight interactions. In CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 891-902). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675170

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Gallacher, S, O'Connor, J, Bird, J, Rogers, Y, Capra, L, Harrison, D & Marshall, P 2015, Mood Squeezer: Lightening up the workplace through playful and lightweight interactions. in CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 891-902, 18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015, BC, Canada, 14/03/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675170

Mood Squeezer: Lightening up the workplace through playful and lightweight interactions. / Gallacher, Sarah; O'Connor, Jenny; Bird, Jon et al.
CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 891-902.

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