M1.1: MyShare

The most prominent occupational disease for office workers is stress, which can over time lead to mental and physical health problems such as burnouts. These consequences of chronic stress are preventable if its formation is recognized early on, but the office environment and culture do not currently facilitate this enough.

This design project, in collaboration with a Dutch occupational health organization, aims to provide insight in stress in a concrete, low-threshold, and playful manner. By measuring and displaying the collective stress of the workspace anonymously and in real-time with MyShare, we aim to encourage awareness, reflection, and discussion of stress amongst colleagues. User evaluation also highlights the value of MyShare as a feedback tool for supervisors, and the opportunity to facilitate solutions more prominently through the design. This is a first step to encourage preventative actions by individual users, as well as medical professionals or supervisors.