Analytic Self-Reflection Support

The goal of our research is to create systems that generate novel insights for productivity and well-being. Such systems are relevant for individuals who enjoy high autonomy and flexibility but are exposed to challenging work-demands, constant time pressure and a blurring borderline between professional and private life. For them, staying productive and healthy requires increased levels of self-management, e.g., to take deliberate decisions where to allocate personal resources or how to achieve a balance between productivity and well-being. This management process, however, is in turn challenging and requires effort and time.

The key idea is hence to empower individuals with advanced tools that support them in tracking behavioural, mental and physiological variables. An example for this is tracking subjective vitality with a single-item scale that resembles a battery or tracking heart rate variability with wearable devices. The power of IT-support lies both in (semi-)automated measurements as well as advanced analytics. In contrast to existing tracking tools that predominantly focus on isolated aspects such as time tracking, fitness, mental health or nutrition, we aim to integrate and analyse variables from different contexts to reveal complex, individual patterns.     

 

Research Topics

  • How to design feedback tools that generate novel insights for the individual
  • Analysis of history and trends, discovery of patterns
  • Assessment of the outcome (e.g., experiences and behaviours) of system use

Systems

  • SUPHRA – Sensor- and AI-based coaching for health and productivity [Poster]
  • ze:st – Human Energy Diary with Feedback [Poster]
  • DWLT – Desktop Work-Life Tracker [Poster, Film]

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Contact persons

Prof. Dr. Michael Fellmann

Prof. Dr. Michael Fellmann

Professorship of Information Systems, in particular Business Information Systems (WIBIS)
Fabienne Lambusch

Fabienne Lambusch

M.Sc., WIBIS Department

Activities

Duration Type Topic
Since 2023 Cooperation Interdisciplinary research cooperation with the Institute of Biostatistics (Prof Georg Fuellen) to generate feedback with biomarkers and large language models.
Since 2019 Cooperation Interdisciplinary research cooperation between the universitys of Leipzig, Greifswald and Rostock on the topic of "human energy" and its measurement as well as health prevention.
Since 2019 Study development ze:st - electronic feedback diary study on the topic of individual energy management. The study has been successfully applied several times with samples > 100.
Since 2018 Prototype development Desktop Work Life-Life Tracker (DWLT) - tool for semi-automatic tracking of productivity, behaviour and well-being parameters at work. Development in C#.
2017-2024 PhD Fabienne Lambusch: Context-sensitive Assistance Systems for Smart Self-Management.

Selected publications

Lambusch, Fabienne; Weigelt, Oliver; Fellmann, Michael; Fischer, Jana; Kiechle, Ann-Kathrin (2023): Towards Personalized Feedback as an Energizer: A Randomized Controlled Trial. In: 2023 IEEE 25th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI): IEEE, S. 1–9

Fellmann, Michael; Lambusch, Fabienne; Schmidt, Angelina Clara (2023): Combining Computer-Based Activity Tracking with Human Energy and Sentiment Self-assessment for Continuous Work-Life Reflection. In: Masaaki Kurosu und Ayako Hashizume (Hg.): Human-Computer Interaction. Thematic Area, HCI 2023, Held as Part of the 25th HCI International Conference, HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23–28, 2023, Proceedings, Part II, Bd. 14012. 1st ed. 2023, S. 164–181

Lambusch, Fabienne; Fellmann, Michael; Poppe, Michael; Weigelt, Oliver; Hein, Sophia (2020): Personal Productivity Management in the Digital Age: Measures from Research and Use of Conventional Tools. In: Norbert Gronau, Moreen Heine, K. Poustcchi und H. Krasnova (Hg.): WI2020 Zentrale Tracks: GITO Verlag, S. 632–647

Lambusch, L.; Henning, D. R.; Fellmann, M.; Weigelt, O.; Kiechle, A.-K. (2022): Human Energy Diary Studies with Personalized Feedback: A Proof of Concept with formr. In: Bier, N.; Fred, Ana L. N.;  Gamboa, H. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2022, Volume 5: HEALTHINF, pp. 789–800

Lambusch, F.; Knoblich, J.; Weigelt, O.; Kraft, D.; Fellmann, M.; Bieber, G. (2022): Does my glucose level tell how energetic I feel? In Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (iWOAR '22). Association for Computing Ma-chinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 8, pp. 1–9.

Lambusch, F.; Fellmann, M.; Rosenau, C.; Gember, A. (2021): On the Diversity of Self-Tracking Purposes: Systematizing the Objectives in Tracking Oneself. In: Ahram, Tareq Z.; Falcão, Chris-tianne S. (Eds.): Proceedings of AHFE 2021 – Advances in Usability, User Experience, Wearable and Assistive Technology., pp. 34–41

Fellmann, M.; Lambusch, F.; Dehne, M. (2020): Towards Intelligent Personal Task and Time Management: Requirements and Opportunities for Advanced To-do Lists. In: Proceedings of the 10th Int.l Workshop on Enterprise Modeling and Information Systems Architectures (EMISA 2020). pp. 25–31

Fellmann, M.; Lambusch, F.; Weigelt, O. (2020): Human Energy in Organizations: Theoretical Foundations and IT-based Assessment. In: Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. In: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference EPCE 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI Inter-national Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020. Proceedings Part I: Harris, D.; Wen-Chin, L. (Eds) Towards a Multimodal Measure for Physiological Behaviours to Estimate Cognitive Load. Springer (LNCS 12186), pp. 127–140. 

Lambusch, F.; Weigelt, O.; Fellmann, M.; Siestrup, K. (2020): Application of a pictorial scale of human energy in ecological momentary assessment research. In: Proceedings of Mental Workload, Human Physiology, and Human Energy. 17th International Conference, EPCE 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Proceedings Part I: Harris, D.; Wen-Chin, L. (Eds) Towards a Multimodal Measure for Physiological Behaviours to Estimate Cognitive Load. Springer (LNAI 12186), pp. 171–189

Fellmann, M.; Lambusch, F. (2019): Stress-Sensitive IT-Systems at Work: Insights from an Empirical Investigation. In: Abramowicz W., Corchuelo R. (Eds): Business Information Systems (BIS 2019). Cham : Springer (LNBIP 354), pp 284–298.

Fellmann, M.; Lambusch, F.; Pieper, L. (2018): IT-supported Stress Management Mediating between Sensor Data and Individual Appraisal. In: Proceedings of the 5th international Workshop on Sensor-based Activity Recognition and Interaction (iWOAR 2018), September 20–21, Berlin. New York, NY, USA : ACM. 7 Pages

Lambusch, F.; Fellmann, M.; Sauer, V. (2018): The Data Perspective of Sensor-enabled Personal Work Support Systems. In: Proceedings of the Workshop MCI-WS18 – Smart Factories: Mitarbei-terzentrierte Informationssysteme für die Zusammenarbeit der Zukunft, held at Mensch und Computer, September 4, Dresden, Germany. 7 Pages. In: Raimund Dachselt und Gerhard Weber (Hg.): Mensch und Computer 2018 – Workshopband. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. 

Fellmann, M.; Lambusch, F.; Waller, A.; Pieper, L.; Hellweg, T. (2017): Auf dem Weg zum stress-sensitiven Prozessmanagement: Grundlagen zu Stress, seiner Messung und zu Anwendungsfällen. In: Eibl, M.; Gaedke (Eds.) INFORMATIK 2017. Bonn : Köllen (GI LNI P-275), pp. 863-869. 

Lambusch, F.; Weigelt, O.; Fellmann, M.; Hein, S.; Poppe, M. (2020): Personal Productivity Management in the Digital Age: Measures from Research and Use of Conventional Tools. In: Gronau, N.; Heine, M.; Poustcchi K.; Krasnova, H. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik (WI 2020), Track "Digital Health & Well-Being", March 8-11, Potsdam, Germany. GITO Verlag, pp. 632-647. 

Poppe, M.; Lambusch F.; Fellmann, M.; Lichtwark, M. (2019): IT-unterstützte Datenerfassung zur Ableitung persönlicher Produktivitätsfaktoren: eine systematische Literaturanalyse. In: Procee-dings of the Mensch und Computer 2019 Workshop on Smart Collaboration - Mitarbeiter-zentrierte Informationssysteme in der Produktentstehung. 8 Pages. 

Fellmann, M.; Lambusch, F.; Pieper, L. (2019): Towards Combining Automatic Measurements with Self-Assessments for Personal Stress. In: 2019 IEEE 21st Conference on Business Informatics (CBI), pp 604-611