BibTeX
@MISC{Leshed_generalterms,
author = {Gilly Leshed and Phoebe Sengers},
title = {General Terms},
year = {}
}
Share
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
OpenURL
Abstract
This paper examines the relationship between experiences of busyness in everyday life and the use of productivity tools, including planners, calendars and to-do lists. Field study findings demonstrate that American individuals across a demographic range have internalized a cultural emphasis of busyness as a moral value to construct positive identities as busy individuals. At the same time, they strug-gle with a sense of conflict around busyness, reflected in real-life experiences of clashing priorities, fantasies of downtime, and struggles with anxiety, guilt, and loss of control. Our findings also point to the ways digital and non-digital productivity tools are embedded in experiences and coping practices around busyness. Grounded in our obser-vations we propose design principles for productivity tools that support users ’ identities as busy people but also address some of the perils of the American busyness ethic. Author Keywords Busyness, productivity tools, qualitative field study.
Keyphrases
general term productivity tool user identity real-life experience non-digital productivity tool to-do list positive identity american busyness ethic demographic range everyday life cultural emphasis design principle busy individual busy people moral value field study finding american individual author keywords busyness qualitative field study
