The future of work and play: From automated vehicles to working from home

ABSTRACT

How can technology support workers in our rapidly changing world? How can we help them be productive and creating, and how can we support their overall wellbeing? Our team explores these broad questions for two specific areas: working in future automated vehicles, and working from home. We argue that making progress in these areas will require convergent research – the type of research in which experts from multiple backgrounds create new languages of expression and new approaches that integrate disciplines. In this document we present our own steps towards such a convergent research approach to the future of work and play.

Keywords

work from home, automated vehicles, convergent research

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/S

Andrew L. Kun
University of New Hampshire
andrew.kun@unh.edu

Orit Shaer
Wellesley College
oshaer@wellesley.edu

Raffaella Sadun
Harvard Business School
rsadun@hbs.edu

Linda Ng Boyle
University of Washington
linda@uw.edu

John D. Lee
University of Wisconsin – Madison
John.d.lee@wisc.edu

New Future of Work 2020, August 3–5, 2020
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