Our main objective is to explore the use of digital self-monitoring tools for the purpose of
humanization of highly digitized work and, in particular, to find out how the threat of
excessive
self-optimization and ‘motivated self-endangerment’ can be turned into an opportunity of
empowering employees to improve their health and quality of work. At a technical level, this
includes the aim to prevent misinformation by increasing the accuracy and reliability of
collected information based on biometric data and the modality of its communication to the
users. At an organizational level, the aim is to use the feedback such tools provide on work
situations for individual and collective empowerment.
Individual objectives include the development of a reliable toolset for
stress/concentration-level
monitoring that will be used in the remainder of the project; the application and test of the
tool
and the collection of data to improve the tool; the exploration of the potentials of the tool
for
employee empowerment and participation. On the basis of the individualized feedback from
the tool, collective reflection of working conditions will be initiated to analyze whether and
under
what circumstances such reflection processes may contribute to the humanization of highly
digitized ‘brainwork’.