Promoting Physical Wellbeing in the Workplace
Providing Working Adults with a Tool to Reduce their Sedentary Behavior
M.E. Adar (Student TU Delft)
R. de Bruin (TU Delft - Human Factors)
D.V. Keyson (TU Delft - Codesigning Social Change)
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Abstract
This paper presents a user-centered design project examining how to reduce the long-term sedentary behavior of desk-based working adults by motivating them to utilize their sit-stand desks to make more transitions between sitting and standing. The project involved a range of design techniques and research methods to look deeper into the practices and habits of working adults and better understand why this lack of sit-stand desk use occurs and how it can be changed. Combining the findings of the different research techniques led to an innovative design strategy consisting of 5 key considerations to reduce the sedentary behavior of working adults: (1) reminders of when to alter between sitting & standing; (2) social support; (3) awareness of effects on body & mind; (4) education on sit-stand desk benefits & proper use; (5) control over sit/stand transitions The results of these considerations were applied in a final concept call BMDesk.