Ubiquitous Monitoring in the Office: Salient Perceptions of Data Collection Devices

The principle of pervasive computing is to embed sensory and other electronic devices into everyday objects. This will seamlessly enable advanced services and applications, but requires the continuous collection of data about the user. While research into the effects of this new type of monitoring remains relatively unstudied, work has began to explore these issues. The focus of this research has been on the impact of the monitoring systems design, leaving the role of the user relatively unexplored. This acts as the foundation of this paper, which aims to explore user perceptions of ubiquitous monitoring systems. Questionnaire data is collected to test the strength and direction of relations between perceptions; which are then validated.