00:21:49 Stephen Elms: Happy Thursday everyone. Glad to be back for another week. 00:25:36 Andrew Kun: Questions? Please post them here. 00:26:39 Shamsi Iqbal: How can we be more intentional about breaks? Working from home, a break is often not really a break, but a transition from one type of task to another. 00:26:56 Nadia Fereydooni: With the nature of work changing over the past few months, do you think we need a new definition for productivity? 00:29:12 Charity Reed: Should the onus of prioritizing these breaks/movement be on the individual or on the employers? Which one is better for the individual? 00:29:54 Kai Kunze: On the other hand there are a lot of mobile text input while walking papers in CHI … yet, they seems not to catch on. Any ideas why? 00:34:19 Charity Reed: I agree that automatic transcription has gotten better, however as someone who has friends in the deaf community, it is still not where it really needs to be to be a complete replacement for human transcription. 00:39:01 sarahfaltaous: on the other hand, we know way more about the worker nowadays - we have knowledge about age/current physiological condition/etc. - shouldnt we put this in ((i.e. why should it be just static))? 00:42:25 Anna Cox: Not a question: I'm struck by the differences here. I take more breaks now than I ever did before lockdown. Yes I am talking to my kids etc but it still feels like a break from work. I never took breaks before 00:46:52 Shamsi Iqbal: @Anna Cox - fair point. I think what I have found the most challenging, quite ironically, is the interleaving, most likely because I am not fully disengaged from what I was doing when I am asked to switch to something else (nonwork, kid questions about school work etc). I found that if I allocate a specific time, say 30 minutes to do something related to personal/family and then be focused at work for 30 minutes, that seems to work better. This makes it easier to ramp up and ramp down, rather than rapid switching of context. 00:49:48 Shadan Sadeghian: what defines the quality of a break? e.g., a force break might reduce the fatigue and have physical-health related benefits but lead to stress or dissatisfaction due to lack of efficiency. Do we need “metrics” based non user experience? 00:50:04 Anna Cox: @Shamsi - yes I agree. I am scheduling 10min slots in my day to set up the 11yr old on his next school task. It is working really well for us both. Also we have scheduled breaks based on the 13yr olds school day because he has live lessons so has no flexibility. But I have always found it very difficult to stick to scheduled breaks before - maybe because there was no one to share them with. 00:50:06 Kai Kunze: With some of Benjamin Tag’s work for CHI we saw that people are just horrible on self reporting fatigue. We used sleepiness scale questionnaires and the PVT. The sleepiness scales were randomly distributed. 00:54:00 Florian Michahelles: hi everyone: what is a break? in the factory it is much clearer, you are off the machine...so you can’t even work, it’s a break. 00:54:58 Kai Kunze: It’s not only speech. Thad still uses the Twiddler :) 00:55:35 Florian Michahelles: researchers in a way are always on, turning hobbies into research, the distinction becomes blurry. having a lunch break with your team, talking about joined interest, e.g. projects, is this a break? 00:55:41 Kai Kunze: 60- 80 wpm typing mobile in one hand. 00:57:12 Florian Michahelles: never saying no, accepting this review, conducting this workshop on Sunday before the conference, applying for this yet another proposal on top of the daily duties...overwrites your break.