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Design Principles for Digital Occupational Health Systems

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Advancements in low-cost and unobtrusive wearable computing devices have prompted employers to begin providing their employees with wearable technology as a part of corporate wellness programs. While the adoption of wearable health-tracking systems might improve employees’ wellbeing, the introduction of such systems in organizational settings might also instigate certain tensions, in particular those between privacy and wellbeing, and work and private life. This study was based on an analysis of these tensions; following the design science research paradigm, design principles were derived to minimize such strain.

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This research was supported by the European Commission and Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research, and Innovation (SERI), under the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Joint Program.

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Yassaee, M. (2017). Design Principles for Digital Occupational Health Systems. In: Abramowicz, W. (eds) Business Information Systems. BIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 288. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59336-4_2

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