ShapeTech will provide extensive insights into employees’ experiences with, and the possible
added value of, self-tracking tools in a highly digitized working environment. It will also inform
about ways to improve the design and implementation of self-tracking tools in the work context
in order to support humanization while avoiding excessive self-optimization.
Further results include insights into how workers use a self-monitoring tool in a real-life
context,
how they experience the usage and to what extent the feedback workers get enables a
reflection on their working conditions and empowers them to influence highly digitized working
environments.
One expected outcome is a set of guidelines for technology developers and technology and
health promotion stakeholders on the corporate and public level to help them ensure that self-
monitoring tools which use biometric data can be designed and implemented in such a way
that they contribute to the empowerment of employees and help improve highly digitized work
environments.