The potential of technology in facilitating positive stress experiences

Päivi Heikkilä; Mari Ainasoja; Virpi Oksman

doi:10.1145/2788412.2788441

The potential of technology in facilitating positive stress experiences

Päivi Heikkilä, Mari Ainasoja, Virpi Oksman

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

Abstract

The positive side of stress, eustress, has remained an understudied area in psychology, health technology and HCI. Based on 21 qualitative interviews with entrepreneurs on their positive stress experiences, we aim at providing implications for technology-supported service design. First, we shed light on the current role of technology in experiencing positive stress in the everyday work-related situations of entrepreneurs. Second, the potential of technology is assessed by analysing entrepreneurs' mind-sets and the ways of working which they perceive as enablers for eustress and which could be facilitated by novel technological solutions. Our findings show that the potential of technology for supporting eustress includes areas such as co-creation and collaboration, planning and scheduling, togetherness and shared success, the means for mental preparing and ways to recover.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ECCE '15 Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery ACM
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-3612-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2788412.2788441
Publication status	Published - 2015
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	33rd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2015 - Warsaw, Poland Duration: 1 Jul 2015 → 3 Jul 2015 Conference number: 33

Conference

Conference	33rd European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, ECCE 2015
Abbreviated title	ECCE 2015
Country	Poland
City	Warsaw
Period	1/07/15 → 3/07/15

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positive side of stress
eustress

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Heikkilä, P., Ainasoja, M., & Oksman, V. (2015). The potential of technology in facilitating positive stress experiences. In ECCE '15 Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015 [27] Association for Computing Machinery ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2788412.2788441

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The potential of technology in facilitating positive stress experiences. / Heikkilä, Päivi; Ainasoja, Mari; Oksman, Virpi.

ECCE '15 Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics 2015. Association for Computing Machinery ACM, 2015. 27.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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