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How can entertainment improve workers' motivation and their productivity?

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ACE '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology

Pages 24 - 31

https://doi.org/10.1145/1067343.1067346

Published: 02 September 2004 Publication History

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We still have dull but nonautomated work. The work falls workers' motivation down, so their productivity is decreased. In order to keep their motivation high, we propose the method to install the power of entertainment, which makes people relax, fun and active.In this paper, we discuss what should be the entertainment for workers, and propose the guidelines of it. For instance:• The entertainment should reflect their amount of work.• The amount of work must follow their subjectivity.• The entertainment should not require any operations because it must not distract workers.Then we describe the estimation method of amount of work and an entertainment representation system in detail. The system shows a virtual tree for each worker. This grows up corresponding to his/her subjective amounts of work.As the result of the evaluation experiment, we found the joy of the entertainment can raise up the workers' motivation and their productivity.

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How can entertainment improve workers' motivation and their productivity?
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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DOI:10.1145/1067343

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Buddharaju PShastri DMandapathi AVaidya SPavlidis ITan DBegole BKellogg W(2011)Who said monitoring is boringCHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1979742.1979849(2041-2046)Online publication date: 7-May-2011
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Kuramoto IKashiwagi KUemura TShibuya YTsujino YLee N(2005)Weekend battleProceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology10.1145/1178477.1178483(43-50)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2005
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