Human Flourishing in the Digital Age
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Item Generative AI in the Workplace: Affective Affordances and Employee Flourishing(2025-01-07) Barbala, Astri; Ulfsnes, Rasmus; Wivestad, Viggo; Stray, ViktoriaWith the advent of Generative AI (GenAI) and its application in various industries, research has begun to show how this new technology might impact aspects such as teamwork, perceived productivity, and the nature of work tasks. However, there remains a lack of studies investigating the emotional dimensions of GenAI use, particularly the affective experiences that emerge from employing such tools. This study explores the potential of GenAI tools to enhance employee flourishing in a workplace context. Through interviews with 30 individuals across four tech-intensive companies, we investigate how these tools not only provide new possibilities for work practices but also elicit positive affective experiences among users. Drawing on affect studies and affordance theory, this paper suggests that GenAI’s serendipitous nature and ability to streamline mundane tasks can enhance operational capabilities while inspiring a dynamic interplay of anticipation and excitement. Our findings indicate that the integration of GenAI introduces novel affective affordances that can potentially enhance workplace flourishing, thereby augmenting the traditional understanding of user-tool interaction in professional environments.Item Examining the Eudaimonic Experience: Differences between Well-Being Orientations Regarding Motivation, Engagement, and Basic Psychological Needs in Interaction with AI(2025-01-07) Joers, Julian; De Luca, Ernesto WilliamThe inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) in people's daily activities, professional work, or private life confronts human-computer interaction (HCI) researchers with new questions, such as the consequences on basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relatedness) and users' well-being. Especially, ensuring and fostering eudaimonic well-being (EWB) which demands authentic and meaningful activities remains a challenge in human-centered artificial intelligence (HCAI) research, because of the increasing transfer of task accomplishment and decision-making to AI. Thus in this paper, we present our findings from an online survey with a total of 301 participants reporting their purpose of using AI technology and letting them rate their experiences with several scales focusing on aspects such as perceptions of eudaimonic experience, autonomy, competence, motivation of use, and facets on user engagement (focused attention, usability, aesthetic appeal, reward). The participants were clustered with the help of a validated psychological scale into three possible well-being orientations: eudaimonia, hedonia, and extrinsic goals. There are several findings: Firstly, the results show that the perception of eudaimonic experience, focused attention as well as motivation to use AI significantly differs regarding the well-being orientation, and secondly across all well-being orientations we found contradictive perceptions of autonomy and competence across interaction levels that open up the necessity of further research on the impact of AI on autonomy and competence perceptions.Item Can Generative AI Contribute to Both Productivity Gains and Human Flourishing, and in Fine Satisfaction at Work? Research on GitHub Copilot Use in Software Development(2025-01-07) Ngwenyama , Ojelanki; Kanita, Nada; Rowe, FrantzArtificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), has profoundly transformed the professional landscape. These technologies present new opportunities to enhance productivity, potentially offsetting the societal risks they pose. This study aims to assess whether GAI contributes to satisfaction at work and whether some of this improvement can be explained by productivity gains, human flourishing and reduced frustration when using GAI. To explore this, we employed the CHAID (Chi-square Automatic Interaction Detection) method and ANOVA analyses to investigate the use of GitHub Copilot by software developers. Our findings show that using GitHub Copilot boosted developers' productivity, their sense of flourishing at work, reduced their frustration and increased their satisfaction.Item The Art and Beauty of Informing: Subjective Information, Vorstellung, and Aesthetics in Information Visualization(2025-01-07) Mckinney, Earl; Ciriello, RaffaeleThis paper differentiates objective from subjective views of information, emphasizing the role of human intentionality and creativity in the informing process. Combining Schopenhauer’s aesthetics with the subjective theory of information, we reconceive data representation as an art form. Using a case study of Tableau’s best practices, we show how intentional creativity can transform ‘objective data’ into meaningful and aesthetic visualizations, fostering deep emotions and profound insights. This approach can reconcile environmental complexity and ambiguity, thereby enriching the human experience. However, it carries the risk of seduction through beautiful, but misleading, information, necessitating a shift in focus from useful to responsible data representation.Item Introduction to the Minitrack on Human Flourishing in the Digital Age(2025-01-07) Hylving, Lena; Koutsikouri, Dina; Jensen, Tina