Last week, Jessica, Åsa and I hosted a productive reference group meeting in the AROA project funded by AFA Försäkring. As we mentioned previously, we are currently in the project’s synthesis phase where we work towards a theoretical framework on the role of interactions with technology, such as AI, robotics, or automation, in influencing our work engagement. The framework is still a work in progress that we iterate and continue to ground in our empirical and theoretical findings on a regular basis. As such we are not able to present anything here yet but look forward to do so once it is ready for a wider audience.
During the reference group, we presented the current state of this framework to representatives from companies, unions and employer organisations as well as HCI researchers external to the project. Through this, the reference group provided invaluable insights and reflections on parallels to what was presented and helped further ground the current iteration of the project in their practical and domain knowledge. The project group also got feedback and inspiration from the reference group on where the project should go next and on future possibilities on how to continue after the current project finishes up. To the project group, a big thank you for your support in the project so far and the great insights that you provided!
The project team will now continue to work on integrating the knowledge and feedback gained from the reference group into the next state of the theoretical framework on digital work engagement. We will share further updates when we are ready to do so as the project continues.
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Andreas and the other researchers in the AROA project.