Heart Rate Sharing at the Workplace

Augmenting online interpersonal communication with biosignals, often in the form of heart rate sharing, has shown promise increasing affiliation, feelings closeness, and intimacy. Increasing empathetic awareness professional domain customer interface could benefit both employee satisfaction, but sharing this context needs to consider issues around physiological monitoring employees, appropriate level intimacy, as well productivity outlook. In study, we explore at workplace study its effects on task performance. Altogether, 124 participants completed a collaborative visual guidance using chat box visualization. Participants’ feedback about reveal themes such stronger sense human contact increased self-reflection, also raise concerns unnecessity, privacy negative interpretations. Live was always measured, investigate effect performance, half customers were told that they seeing recording, advisor’s live beat. We found link between higher ratings usefulness visualization associated closeness. These results intimacy are particularly important for contexts, preference modulates social may have