Kortuem, Gerd and Alford, David and Ball, Linden and Busby, Jerry and Davies, Nigel and Efstratiou, Christos and Finney, Joe and White, Marian and Kinder, Katharina (2007) Sensor Networks or Smart Artifacts? An Exploration of Organizational Issues of an Industrial Health and Safety Monitoring System. In: UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing, 9th International Conference, 2007-09-162007-09-19, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Abstract
Industrial health and safety is an important yet largely unexplored application area of ubiquitous computing. In this paper we investigate the relationship between technology and organization in the context of a concrete industrial health and safety system. The system is designed to reduce the number of incidents of "�vibration white finger"� (VWF) at construction sites and uses wireless sensor nodes for monitoring workers'� exposure to vibrations and testing of compliance with legal health and safety regulations. In particular we investigate the impact of this ubiquitous technology on the relationship between management and operatives, the formulation of health and safety rules and the risk perception and risk behavior of operatives. In addition, we contrast sensor-network inspired and smart artifact inspired compliance systems, and make the case that these technology models have a strong influence on the linkage between technology and organization.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Journal or Publication Title: | UbiComp 2007: Ubiquitous Computing, 9th International Conference |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cs_eprint_id ; 1591 cs_uid ; 382 |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Departments: | Faculty of Science and Technology > School of Computing & Communications Faculty of Science and Technology > Psychology Faculty of Health and Medicine > Health Research |
| ID Code: | 13020 |
| Deposited By: | ep_importer_comp |
| Deposited On: | 26 Jun 2008 15:36 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2012 18:44 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/13020 |
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