PROSELF: Semi-automated Self-Tracking Systems to Improve Personal Productivity
Oct 1, 2022
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Funding: SNF, grant 197242 · October 2022 – September 2025
PROSELF aims at investigating how emerging mobile and wearable technology can help provide an understanding of what makes people feel (and be) productive, and subsequently, to assist users with managing their productivity on a daily basis.
The project addresses concerns about workplace monitoring by focusing on knowledge workers’ empowerment rather than employer control. While existing “productivity apps” help monitor work activities, PROSELF advocates for systems that consider environmental, behavioral, and psychological factors in one’s feeling of (and indeed, observed) performance at work.
Objectives
- Provide novel methods to enable self-monitoring at work in a semi-automated manner
- Develop a sound modeling framework to identify proxies of specific performance indicators in users’ context data
- Devise an adequate architecture to support the definition and execution of anticipatory decisions
- Critically evaluate these approaches in-situ in a range of field studies
Authors
Professor
Silvia Santini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI since September 2016, where she co-leads the People-Centered Computing Lab together with Prof. Marc Langheinrich. From July 2014 until August 2016 she held an Associate Professor position at TU Dresden, where she led the Embedded Systems Lab. From October 2011 until July 2014 she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of TU Darmstadt, Germany, where she led the Wireless Sensor Networks Lab. From 2009 until 2011 she was a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Friedemann Mattern’s Distributed Systems Group at ETH Zurich, and from November 2010 until February 2011 she joined Leonidas Guibas’s research group at Stanford University as a visiting scholar. Silvia completed her PhD under the supervision of Prof. Friedemann Mattern at ETH Zurich in 2009, and graduated in Telecommunication Engineering (with honors) from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in May 2004.