Boundary Management

The full title is Boundary Management between Life Domains to Increase Connectedness and Reduce Distraction for a Better Work-Life Balance.

Description

The project Boundary Management aims at increasing connectedness between people and reduce distraction through technology and others. This requires understanding of users’ life domains, borders, transitions, long-term strategies and short in-situ tactics as well as developing concepts and tools to smoothen the human-computer and human-computer-human interaction.

Approach

The approach is multifaceted and combines theoretical research and conceptualisations, empirical work with quantitative and qualitative insights, and conceptual and technological development of tools. For studying boundary management and interruption in the wild, we have been developing various tools for experience sampling.

Partners

• University of Bamberg

People

Prof. Dr. Tom Gross, Principal Investigator
Pia Marquart, Researcher
Anna-Lena Mueller, Researcher
Michael von Kalben
Martina Schuss, Researcher
Ludwig Thormann, Researcher

Funding

The project is partly funded the University of Bamberg; it started in 2016.

Further Information

Publications

Please note: the PDFs of our publications can be found in Publications.

Gross, T. Availability for Work, Family, and Leisure: An Empirical Study. In Proceedings of the 19th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2023 (Aug. 28-Sept. 1, York, UK). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2023. pp. 423-428. (ISBN: 978-3-031-42292-8). doi:doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5.

Gross, T. and von Kalben, M. A Literature Review on Positive and Negative Effects of Interruptions and Implications for Design. In Proceedings of the 19th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2023 (Aug. 28-Sept. 1, York, UK). Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2023. pp. 373-379. (ISBN: 978-3-031-42292-8). doi:doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42293-5.

Gross, Tom and Malzhacker, Tony. The Experience Sampling Method and its Tools: A Review for Developers, Study Administrators, and Participants. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 7, EICS (June 2023). pp. 182:1-182:29. (ISSN: 2573-0142). doi:doi.org/10.1145/3593234.

Mueller, Anna-Lena and Gross, Tom. Ein formales Modell der semantischen Struktur von Lebensbereichen zur Reduktion von Unterschrechungen (A Formal Model of the Sematic Structure of Life Domains to Reduce Interruptions; in German). In Mensch & Computer - 19. Fachuebergreifende Konferenz fuer interaktive und kooperative Medien - M&C 2019 (Sept. 8-11, Hamburg, Germany). ACM, N.Y., 2019. pp. 577-581. (ISBN: 978-1-4503-7198-8). doi:10.1145/3340764.3344462.

Mueller, Anna-Lena and Gross, Tom. Notification Manager: Mit Boundary Management-Konzepten zu weniger Unterbrechungen (Notification Manager: Reducing Interruptions with Boundary Management Concepts; in German). In Mensch & Computer - 19. Fachuebergreifende Konferenz fuer interaktive und kooperative Medien - M&C 2019 (Sept. 8-11, Hamburg, Germany). ACM, N.Y., 2019. pp. 605-610. (ISBN: 978-1-4503-7198-8). doi:10.1145/3340764.3344876.

Schuss, Martina and Gross, Tom. Boundary Management: Zwischen Klarer Abgrenzung und Ad-Hoc-Abwaegung (Boundary Management: Between Clear Separation and Ad-Hoc Decisions; in German) (Honorable Mention Award). In Mensch & Computer - 19. Fachuebergreifende Konferenz fuer interaktive und kooperative Medien - M&C 2019 (Sept. 8-11, Hamburg, Germany). ACM, N.Y., 2019. pp. 547-551. (ISBN: 978-1-4503-7198-8). doi:10.1145/3340764.3344456.

Thormann, Ludwig and Gross, Tom. Boundary Management zwischen Sachzwängen und emotionalen Bindungen (Boundary Managment Between Factual Constraints and Emotional Ties; in Germany). In Mensch & Computer - 19. Fachuebergreifende Konferenz fuer interaktive und kooperative Medien - M&C 2019 (Sept. 8-11, Hamburg, Germany). ACM, N.Y., 2019. pp. 553-557. (ISBN: 978-1-4503-7198-8). doi:10.1145/3340764.3344457.

Schuss, Martina and Gross, Tom. Availability and Boundary Management: An Exploratory Study. In Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI 2019 (May 4-9, Glasgow, Scotland, UK). ACM, N.Y., 2019. pp. LBW 1215:1-4. (ISBN: 978-1-4503-5971-9/19/05).

Mueller, Anna-Lena and Gross, Tom. Parallel and Distributed Life Domains: Towards a Formal Approach. In Proceedings of the 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing - PDP 2019 (Feb. 13-15, Pavia, Italy). Libraria CLU, Pavia, Italy, 2019. pp. 3-4. (ISBN: 978-3-902457-52-3).

Marquart, Pia and Gross, Tom. Using Communication Channels for Boundary Management. In Mensch & Computer - 18. Fachuebergreifende Konferenz fuer interaktive und kooperative Medien - M&C 2018 (Sept. 2-5, Dresden, Germany). Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V., Bonn, 2018. pp. 389-392. doi:10.18420/muc2018-mci-0377.

Fetter, Mirko, Mueller, Anna-Lena, Vasilyev, Petr, Barth, Laura Marie and Gross, Tom. Towards a Better Understanding of Availability and Interruptibility with Mobile Availability Probes. In Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work - Exploratory Papers - ECSCW 2018 (June 4-8, Nancy, France). Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies, EUSSET, Siegen, Germany, 2018. pp. 14:1-18. (ISSN: 2510-2591). doi:10.18420/ecscw2018_14.

Marquart, Pia and Gross, Tom. Eine explorative Studie zum Einsatz von Kommunikationskanaelen fuer das Boundary Management (An Explorative Study on the Use of Communication Channels for Boundary Management; in German). In Mensch & Computer - 16. Fachuebergreifende Konferenz fuer interaktive und kooperative Medien - M&C 2016 (Sept. 4-7, Aachen, Germany). Gesellschaft fuer Informatik e.V., Bonn, 2016. pp. 1-4. doi:10.18420/muc2016-mci-0226.