Personal Data Collection in the Workplace: Ethical and Technical Challenges

Forestry is a dangerous work environment and collecting data on site to identify and warn about hazardous situations is challenging. In this paper, we discuss our attempts at creating continuous data-collection methods that are ethical, sustainable and effective. We explore the difficulties in collecting personal and environmental data from workers and their work domain. We also draw attention to the specific challenges in designing for sensor-based, wearable rugged IoT solutions. We present a case-study, comprising of a number of experiments, which exemplifies the work we have been undertaking in this domain. The case study is based on our approach to developing a robust, trusted Internet of Things (IoT) solution for dangerous work environments (specifically the forestry environment). We focus the results of this case- study on both the technical successes and challenges as well as the personal and ethical challenges that have been elicited.

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Judy Bowen

Annika Hinze

Christopher Griffiths

Vimal Kumar

David Bainbridge

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Publication date: July 2017

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University of Waikato, New Zealand

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[1] C. AdamsP. RiggsJ. Volckens 2009 Development of a method for personal, spatiotemporal exposure assessment Journal of Environmental Monitoring 11 7 1331 1339

[2] G. AdamsH. ArmstrongM. Cosman 2014 Independent forestry safety review - an agenda for change in the forestry industry

[3] T. ÄkerstedtP. FredlundM. GillbergB. Jansson 2002 Work load and work hours in relation to disturbed sleep and fatigue in a large representative sample Journal of Psychosomatic Research 53 1 585 588

[4] S. AmendolaR. LodatoS. ManzariC. OcchiuzziG. Marrocco 2014 RFID technology for iot-based personal healthcare in smart spaces IEEE Internet of things journal 1 2 144 152

[5] F. BaoI. Chen 2012 Dynamic trust management for internet of things applications Workshop on Self-aware Internet of things 1 6 ACM

[6] C. Botan 1996 Communication work and electronic surveillance: A model for predicting panoptic effects Communication Monographs 63 294 313

[7] J. BowenA. HinzeS. CunninghamR. Parker 2015a Evaluating low-cost activity trackers for use in large-scale data gathering of forestry workers Australian SIGCHI Conference (OZCHI) 474 482 ACM

[8] J. BowenA. HinzeS. J. Cunningham 2015b Into the woods INTERACT 137 143 Springer

[9] J. Brennan 2015 5Ps of the Internet of Things: A user-centric approach Keynote presentation at the European Workshop for Trust & Identity.

[10] J. BrisswalterR. ArcelinM. AudiffrenD. Delignieres 1997 Influence of physical exercise on simple reaction time: effect of physical fitness Perceptual and Motor Skills 85 1019 1027

[11] K. BrownP. ShawK. MeadR. KoveinR. VoorheesA. Brandes 2016 Development of the chemical exposure monitor with indoor positioning for workplace VOC surveys

[12] J. of occupational and environmental hygiene 13 6 401 412

[13] T. ChandolaA. BrittonE. BrunnerH. HemingwayM. MalikM. KumariE. BadrickM. KivimakiM. Marmot 2008 Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms European Heart Journal 29 5 640

[14] S. CharltonP. H. Baas 2006 Fatigue, work-rest cycles, and psychomotor performance of New Zealand truck drivers New Zealand Journal of Psychology 30 1 32 39

[15] S. G. CharltonN. J. Starkey 2013 Driving on familiar roads: Automaticity and inattention blindness Traffic Psychology and Behaviour 19 121 133

[16] I. J. DearyD. LiewaldJ. Nissan 2011 A free, easy- to-use, computer-based simple and four-choice reaction time programme: The Deary-Liewald reaction time task Behavior Research Methods 43 1

[17] M. Domingo 2012 An overview of the Internet of Things for people with disabilities Journal of Network and Computer Applications 35 2 584 596

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[19] H. FathallahV. LecuireE. Rondeau et al 2016 An iot-based scheme for real time indoor personal exposure assessment Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) 323 324 IEEE

[20] F. Galton 1889 An instrument for measuring reaction time Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 59 784 785

[21] D. González-OrtegaF. Díaz-PernasM. Martínez-ZarzuelaM. Antón-Rodríguez 2014 A kinect-based system for cognitive rehabilitation exercises monitoring Computer methods and programs in biomedicine 113 2 620 631

[22] C. Griffiths 2016 Investigating tools and methods for data capture of forestry workers Master’s thesis University of Waikato

[23] J. GubbiR. BuyyaS. MarusicM. Palaniswami 2013 Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions Future Generation Computer Systems 29 7 1645 1660

[24] R. HockeyI. Ebrary 2013 The psychology of fatigue: Work, effort and control Cambridge University Press

[25] R. HonickyE. BrewerE. PaulosR. White 2008 N-smarts: networked suite of mobile atmospheric real-time sensors Networked systems for developing regions 25 30

[26] Human Work Interaction Workshop (HWID) 2015 position papers. available online at https://projects.hci.sbg.ac.at/hwid2015/position-papers

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[29] S. KaurB. BhallaS. K. BajajS. SanyalR. Babbar 2014 Effect of physical and mental stress on heart rate variability in type-A and typeB personalities Indian Journal of Applied Basic Medical Sciences 15 20 59 70

[30] S. KimE. PaulosM. Gross 2010 WearAir: expressive t-shirts for air quality sensing ACM Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction 295 296 ACM

[31] G. KortuemD. AlfordL. BallJ. BusbyN. DaviesC. EfstratiouJ. FinneyM. I. WhiteK. Kinder 2007 Sensor Networks or Smart Artifacts 465 482

[32] T. KothmayrC. SchmittW. HuM. BrünigG. Carle 2013 DTLS based security and twoway authentication for the Internet of Things. Ad Hoc Networks 11 8 2710 2723

[33] S. KumarT. AmellY. NarayanN. Prasad 2004 Measurement of localized muscle fatigue in biceps brachii using objective and subjective measures Muscle Strength 105 121

[34] V. KumarS. Madria 2015 Distributed attribute based access control of aggregated data in sensor clouds Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 2015 IEEE 34th Symposium on 218 227 IEEE

[35] S. KuznetsovE. Paulos 2010 Participatory sensing in public spaces: activating urban surfaces with sensor probes ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 21 30 ACM

[36] R. LacuestaG. Palacios-NavarroC. CetinaL. PeñalverJ. Lloret 2012 Internet of things: where to be is to trust EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 1 1 16

[37] LifeBEAM SmartHat 2017 http://life-beam.com/shop/smart-hat/

[38] R. LilleyA. FeyerP. KirkP. Gander 2002 A survey of forest workers in New Zealand Do hours of work, rest, and recovery play a role in accidents and injury? Journal of Safety Research 33 1 53 71

[39] D. Mangan 2016 Target's Fitbit offer to workers may miss its mark. CNBC http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/16/targets-fitbit-offer-to-workers-may-miss-its-mark.html

[40] A. MurataA. UetakeY. Takasawa 2005 Evaluation of mental fatigue using feature parameter extracted from event-related potential. International journal of industrial ergonomics 35 8 761 770

[41] I. NegiF. TsowK. Tanwar 2011 Novel monitor paradigm for real-time exposure assessment Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology 21 4 419 426

[42] P. Olson 2015 Fitbit On Track To Sell Thousands More Devices Through Barclays, GoDaddy And Other Employers Forbes http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/10/20/fitbit-employers-barclays-godaddy-wellness/#6170061b3baa

[43] R. Parker 2010 Technological advances in the analysis of work in dangerous environments: Tree felling and rural fire fighting PhD thesis Massey University Palmerston North, New Zealand

[44] A. Pye 2015 Mining companies embrace the IoT Engineering and Technology Magazine 10 5

[45] Reaction Time app available from Google Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chingy1788.reactiontime

[46] Readiband Sleep Tracker 2017 Fatigue Science https://www.fatiguescience.com/applications/research/

[47] V. RohokaleN. PrasadR. Prasad 2011 A cooperative IoT for rural healthcare monitoring and control Wireless Communication, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Technology 1 6

[48] R. RomanJ. ZhouJ. Lopez 2013 On the features and challenges of security and privacy in distributed Internet of Things Computer Networks 57 10 2266 2279

[49] F. TavaresP. HealeyT. B. SmithM. W. Driller 2016 Effect of training load on acute fatigue and wellness during an in-season noncompetitive week in elite rugby athletes In Sport & Exercise Science New Zealand Annual Conference

[50] D. v. d. LindenM. FreseT. Meijman 2003 Mental fatigue the control of cognitive processes Acta Psychologica 113 1 45 65

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