Interview Results - cscw-ws-14/group1 GitHub Wiki
Our Idea
Covers various Health issues at work
- Based on air quality may advise users to open doors or windows
- Keep a check of coffee intake and after a certain amount, suggest other activities
- Keep a check on user inactivity for long periods of time and suggest exercises to users 
Interview
- A total of 16 users who work in offices were interviewed
- Our interviewees were almost evenly spread over both genders with 9 out of the 16 being male
- Most of the users were in the age group of 20-30 with only 5 being above 30 years of age
- Our questions covered the day to day activities of users in their offices
- Questions ranged from the average number of hours they spend behind their desk at work to the average number of coffee cups they consume in a day
- Most of our users had 35-40 hour weeks
- Some users worked less than 30 hrs/week 
Coffee related questions
- Number of cups of coffee ** Most of the interviewees only drink 1 cup of coffee daily (60%) (We don’t know how’d they live :P) ** Only 20% drink 2 - 3 cups of coffee ** and 20% drink more than 3
- 70% of the interviewees didn’t like to be checked how many cups of coffee they have daily
Coffee related questions
- 85% like other activities instead of drinking coffee to avoid sleepiness
- 85% would like to do refreshing activities instead of having another cup of coffee
- Only 15% of people have a schedule on when they are going to drink their coffee
- 85% didn’t like to be reminded on a certain time that they schedule to be reminded to drink their coffee 
Kinect related questions
- On an average users spend 5-7 hrs/day sitting behind their desk
- 75% of interviewed users said they generally do not perform any kind of exercise while they are at work
- Approximately 80% of the users said they would not mind their activities around their office being monitored
- Most users shared their office with other people but they said they would mind performing some exercises if it helped them and did not take much time
- People were keen on the competition aspect of the system 
Air quality related questions
- Half of the interviewees are able to “measure” the air quality by feelings
- Being informed about the bad air quality in the office, about 60% interviewees would open the window despite the weather condition; 40% would do so depending on the weather
- 70% would like the room temperature adjusted automatically based on their preference
- 70% would like a suggestion to open the door instead of the window, when it’s cold outside but the air is bad in the office