This thesis will allow students to engage in investigations and design activities concerning potential solutions to foster practices that can facilitate the achievement of a proper work-life balance through boundary work in different contexts. It will address issues of communication, coordination, and cooperation, which have traditionally been studied within CSCW.
Students are expected to engage in ethnographic and participatory design activities to respectively identify design opportunities in the selected context and conceptualise solutions together with representative of their target group. The thesis will be situated in the intersection of human-computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) and practice-centred computing.
Related literature
Bødker, S. (2016): ‘Rethinking technology on the boundaries of life and work’, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(4), pp. 533–54.
Ciolfi, L., Gray, B., & Pinatti de Carvalho, A. F. (2020). Making Home Work Places. Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: The International Venue on Practice-Centred Computing on the Design of Cooperation Technologies, 4(1), 1–16.
Cox, A. L., Bird, J., Mauthner, N., Dray, S., Peters, A. and Collins, E. (2014): ‘Socio-technical practices and work-home boundaries’, in Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-computer Interaction with Mobile devices & Services (MobileHCI ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, pp. 581–584.
Gray, B., Ciolfi, L., & de Carvalho, A. F. P. (2020). Made to Work: Mobilising Contemporary Worklives. Abingdon and New York: Routledge