Alex C Williams

schoolUniversity of Waterloobar_chart#3210 Global Rank

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Optimizing for Happiness and Productivity: Modeling Opportune Moments for Transitions and Breaks at Work

Information workers perform jobs that demand constant multitasking, leading to context switches, productivity loss, stress, and unhappiness. Systems that can mediate task transitions and breaks have the potential to keep people both productive and happy. We explore a crucial initial step for this goal: finding opportu…

CSCW '191st AuthorCrowds and Collaboration

The Perpetual Work Life of Crowdworkers: How Tooling Practices Increase Fragmentation in Crowdwork

Crowdworkers regularly support their work with scripts, extensions, and software to enhance their productivity. Despite their evident significance, little is understood regarding how these tools affect crowdworkers' quality of life and work. In this study, we report findings from an interview study (N=21) aimed at exp…

CSCW '182nd AuthorLanguage and Linguistics

Creating Better Action Plans for Writing Tasks via Vocabulary-Based Planning

While having a step-by-step breakdown for a task—an action plan—helps people complete tasks, prior work has shown that people prefer not to make action plans for their own tasks. Getting planning support from others could be beneficial, but it is limited by how much domain knowledge people have about the task and how…

CHI '181st AuthorConversational Chatbots +1

Supporting Workplace Detachment and Reattachment with Conversational Intelligence

Research has shown that productivity is mediated by an individual’s ability to detach from their work at the end of the day and reattach with it when they return the next day. In this paper we explore the extent to which structured dialogues, focused on individuals’ work-related tasks or emotions, can help them with t…

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