Improving work productivity by controlling the time rate displayed by the virtual clock

Abstract

The main contribution of this paper is establishing the method for improving work productivity unconsciously by controlling the time rate that a virtual clock displays. Recently, it became clear that the work efficiency is influenced by various environmental factors. One of a way to increase work productivity is improving the work rate during certain duration. On the contrary, it is becoming clarified that the time pressure has the potential to enhance the task performance and the work productivity. The approximation of the work rate per certain time and this time pressure are evoked by the time sensation. In this study, we focus on a "clock" as a tool, which gives the recognition of time rate and length for everyone mutually. We propose a method to improve a person's work productivity unconsciously by giving an illusion of false sense of the passaged time by a virtual clock that displays the time rate that differ from real one visually. We conducted experiments to investigate the influence of the changes in the displayed virtual time rate on time perception and work efficiency. The experimental results showed that by displaying an the accelerated time rate, it is possible to improve work efficiency with constant time perception.