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An interactive and personalized intervention to prevent the Sunday blues
Demeng Commissaris (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Zhuochao Peng (TU Delft - Industrial Design Engineering)
Jun Hu (Eindhoven University of Technology)
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Abstract
The Sunday blues are a negative mood shift people experience on Sunday afternoons/evenings, often due to anticipation of upcoming workweeks or regrets about the previous weekend, impacting their overall well-being and work. This study aims to examine the experience of the Sunday blues caused by unmeaningful weekends and explore how a design intervention could help prevent the phenomenon. The results show that an interactive and personalized intervention that helps users reflect, plan, and remind them in a positive manner, while enhancing autonomy, can lead to more meaningful weekends, thus giving the recovery needed to start a new workweek. These insights create a foundation for a better understanding of the Sunday blues due to unmeaningful weekends and offer guidance on how to improve the weekend experience and reduce the occurrence of the Sunday blues.
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