When to Take a Break? Exploring the Role of Peers on Sedentary Office Workers’ Resting Behaviors

Ling Qin; Xu Sun; Bingjian Liu; Luis Moreno Leyva

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-30033-3_40

When to Take a Break? Exploring the Role of Peers on Sedentary Office Workers’ Resting Behaviors

Ling Qin
, Xu Sun^*
, Bingjian Liu
, Luis Moreno Leyva

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

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Abstract

For sedentary office workers, occupational sitting is a health hazard [1]. Excessive sitting, especially prolonged sitting (i.e. sitting more than one hour) without rest is highly likely to increase the risks of metabolic syndrome, obesity, cardiovascular disease and a range of other conditions, all of which cannot even be compensated for by taking exercise [2, 3]. Peer effect is a phenomenon whereby the behavior of an individual is affected by the behavior of their peers. It has been identified in the workplace with regards to wages, absenteeism and investment decision making in recent studies [4–7]. This paper contributes to the stream of research on peer effects on sedentary office workers by proposing a model to quantify the peer effects on office workers’ break behaviors, and by exploring how individual break behaviors can be affected by peers in the same workspace. In conclusion, peer effects have been detected in offices and have proved to have a marked influence on sedentary office workers’ resting behaviors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers - 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings
Editors	Constantine Stephanidis
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	518-527
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9783030300326
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30033-3_40
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes
Event	21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019 - Orlando, United States Duration: 26 Jul 2019 → 31 Jul 2019

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11786 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019
Country/Territory	United States
City	Orlando
Period	26/07/19 → 31/07/19

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Organizational behaviors
Peer effects
Sedentary behaviors
Social norms

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Qin, L., Sun, X., Liu, B., & Leyva, L. M. (2019). When to Take a Break? Exploring the Role of Peers on Sedentary Office Workers’ Resting Behaviors. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers - 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings (pp. 518-527). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11786 LNCS). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30033-3_40

Qin, Ling ; Sun, Xu ; Liu, Bingjian et al. / When to Take a Break? Exploring the Role of Peers on Sedentary Office Workers’ Resting Behaviors. HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers - 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings. editor / Constantine Stephanidis. Springer Verlag, 2019. pp. 518-527 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Qin, L, Sun, X, Liu, B & Leyva, LM 2019, When to Take a Break? Exploring the Role of Peers on Sedentary Office Workers’ Resting Behaviors. in C Stephanidis (ed.), HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers - 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11786 LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 518-527, 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2019, Orlando, United States, 26/07/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30033-3_40

When to Take a Break? Exploring the Role of Peers on Sedentary Office Workers’ Resting Behaviors. / Qin, Ling; Sun, Xu; Liu, Bingjian et al.
HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers - 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings. ed. / Constantine Stephanidis. Springer Verlag, 2019. p. 518-527 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11786 LNCS).

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Qin L, Sun X, Liu B, Leyva LM. When to Take a Break? Exploring the Role of Peers on Sedentary Office Workers’ Resting Behaviors. In Stephanidis C, editor, HCI International 2019 – Late Breaking Papers - 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2019. p. 518-527. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-30033-3_40

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