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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.

Partners

• University of Bamberg

People

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

Funding

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

Further Information

Publications

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.