Hacking Flow: From Lived Practices to Innovation
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| author | Stano, Fabio Wilson, Max L Weinhardt, Christof Knierim, Michael T |
| author_facet | Stano, Fabio Wilson, Max L Weinhardt, Christof Knierim, Michael T |
| contents | In digital knowledge work, flow promises not just productivity; it offers a pathway to well-being. Yet despite decades of flow research in HCI, we know little about how to design digital interventions that support it. In this work, we foreground lived interventions - everyday practices workers already use to foster flow - to uncover overlooked opportunities and chart new directions for digital intervention design. Specifically, we report findings from two studies: (1) a reflexive thematic analysis of open-ended survey responses (n = 160), surfacing 38 lived interventions across four categories: environment, organization, task shaping, and personal readiness; and (2) a quantitative online survey (n = 121) that validates this repertoire, identifies which interventions are broadly endorsed versus polarizing, and elicits visions of technological support. We contribute empirical insights into how digital workers cultivate flow, situate these lived interventions within existing literature, and derive design opportunities for future digital flow interventions. |
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| spellingShingle | Hacking Flow: From Lived Practices to Innovation Stano, Fabio Wilson, Max L Weinhardt, Christof Knierim, Michael T Human-Computer Interaction In digital knowledge work, flow promises not just productivity; it offers a pathway to well-being. Yet despite decades of flow research in HCI, we know little about how to design digital interventions that support it. In this work, we foreground lived interventions - everyday practices workers already use to foster flow - to uncover overlooked opportunities and chart new directions for digital intervention design. Specifically, we report findings from two studies: (1) a reflexive thematic analysis of open-ended survey responses (n = 160), surfacing 38 lived interventions across four categories: environment, organization, task shaping, and personal readiness; and (2) a quantitative online survey (n = 121) that validates this repertoire, identifies which interventions are broadly endorsed versus polarizing, and elicits visions of technological support. We contribute empirical insights into how digital workers cultivate flow, situate these lived interventions within existing literature, and derive design opportunities for future digital flow interventions. |
| title | Hacking Flow: From Lived Practices to Innovation |
| topic | Human-Computer Interaction |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01979 |