University of Twente Student Theses
Enabling Walking Meetings : Design Guidelines and Interactive Solutions
Agafitei, Miriam (2025) Enabling Walking Meetings : Design Guidelines and Interactive Solutions.
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| Abstract: | This project explores how interactive technology solutions can address key perceived barriers of walking meetings. We had a two-step methodology. First, we conducted semi-structured interviews with professionals working in the Netherlands to investigate walking meeting perceived barriers. Second, we did a collaborative design study to explore potential solutions. Through the interviews, we identified three key barriers to walking meetings: visual idea generation, text-based idea capturing, and idea sharing. Participants in the collaborative sessions proposed a wide variety of interactive and infrastructural concepts, often involving technologies such as drones, projectors, AI, and audio tools. From this process, we derived nine design guidelines that reflect participants’ recurring preferences and tackle the identified challenges, such as hands-free interaction, the importance of lightweight portable technologies, the usefulness of structured formats that guide the flow of a meeting, and the value of remote walking meetings in hybrid work environments that incorporate tools to enable remote collaboration. These guidelines provide concrete directions for researchers and designers aiming to develop interactive systems and infrastructures that integrate physical movement into knowledge work. Our findings also touch on adjacent domains, including urban design, smart city design, and smart office environments. While our work addresses several core issues in walking meetings, further research is needed to explore challenges related to group scaling, keeping agenda focus, and weather. By proposing a set of actionable design guidelines grounded in participant-driven ideation, this thesis contributes to the growing body of research on ways to support physical activity in the workplace. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Master) |
| Faculty: | EEMCS: Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science |
| Subject: | 02 science and culture in general, 50 technical science in general, 70 social sciences in general |
| Programme: | Interaction Technology MSc (60030) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/106326 |
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