What's Well & Good in Technology

Research papers related to the ISQOLS SIG Technology And Wellbeing

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When helpful tech gets heavy

This week’s papers circle a shared tension: digital tools can support care, work, and health, but their effects depend on human limits, perceived risk, stress, overload, and the social support needed to make technology livable.

Digital tools can support wellbeing, but design, context, and user experience appear to shape whether help becomes strain.
Several papers treat employee wellbeing as part of technology change, not merely a side issue.
Older adults’ digital lives often require ongoing relational support, not just one-off tech help.

Support or overload

When Digital Encouragement Becomes Digital Overload: A Qualitative Analysis of Self-Identified Highly Sensitive Users' Accounts of Wearable Health Technologies on Reddit.

It examines how wearable health features such as alerts, activity rings, and streaks are described by self-identified highly sensitive users and related communities, including when digital encouragement becomes overload.

Exploring the Impact of Digital Behaviours on Mental Health: Tools and Intervention for Gen Z

It examines excessive digital behavior among Gen Z students in relation to depression, anxiety, stress, sleep quality, mindfulness, and dark triad traits, and assesses a structured digital detox intervention.

Artificial intelligence-driven transformation in healthcare: the mediating role of technostress in the impact of openness to organizational change and attitude toward AI on innovative behavior.

It examines healthcare AI change through technostress, testing how openness to organizational change and attitudes toward AI relate to innovative behavior.

Workplace tech and wellbeing

Digitalizing HR factors: a mediated model of employee psychological wellbeing for employee engagement

It studies whether digital HRM practices affect employee engagement directly and indirectly through employees’ psychological well-being.

Psychological Well-Being and Innovative Work Behavior Among ICT Employees in Türkiye: Comparing the Mediating Roles of Creative Self-Efficacy and Subjective Vitality

It asks how psychological well-being among ICT employees is associated with innovative work behavior through subjective vitality and creative self-efficacy.

Technology and decent work in elderly care: a case study

It uses an Italian nursing home case involving voice assistants to frame technology adoption in elderly care around decent work and employee wellbeing.

Digital life in later age

Technology Caregiving: Reframing How Older Adults Are Supported in Everyday Digital Activities

It reframes older adults’ everyday digital help as technology caregiving: relational, ongoing support for digital activities of daily living.

Technology-Enabled Interventions for Preventing and Responding to Elder Abuse: A Review of the Current Evidence.

It reviews evaluated technology-enabled interventions aimed at preventing and responding to abuse of older people.

Summary written from this week's papers and fact-checked against their abstracts.