TY - JOUR
T1 - An exploratory study using mindfulness meditation apps to buffer workplace technostress and information overload
AU - Houli, Daniel
AU - Radford, Marie
N1 - Publisher Copyright: 83rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology October 25-29, 2020. Author(s) retain copyright, but ASIS&T receives an exclusive publication license.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have revolutionized the effectiveness and productivity of business and employees. However, ICTs engender stress, including Technostress and Information Overload (IO), which has negative effects on employees' mental and physical well-being. Companies increasingly are moving toward further integration of ICTs, expedited greatly by the global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To buffer the effects of workplace stress, the authors propose to investigate how app-based Mindfulness Meditation (MM) can effectively assist individuals dealing with ICTs' negative effects. A preliminary study, involving one IT employee and the popular app “Calm” was conducted to determine the design of a larger, more robust study.
AB - Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have revolutionized the effectiveness and productivity of business and employees. However, ICTs engender stress, including Technostress and Information Overload (IO), which has negative effects on employees' mental and physical well-being. Companies increasingly are moving toward further integration of ICTs, expedited greatly by the global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. To buffer the effects of workplace stress, the authors propose to investigate how app-based Mindfulness Meditation (MM) can effectively assist individuals dealing with ICTs' negative effects. A preliminary study, involving one IT employee and the popular app “Calm” was conducted to determine the design of a larger, more robust study.
KW - app-based meditation
KW - information and communication technologies
KW - information overload
KW - interview
KW - mindfulness meditation
KW - qualitative methods
KW - socio-technical systems
KW - stress management
KW - technostress
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.373
DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.373
M3 - Article
SN - 2373-9231
VL - 57
JO - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
JF - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
IS - 1
M1 - e373
ER -