Abstract:Designing engineering systems to minimize their environmental impact is a very complex task. Little exists to guide designers in developing products that are integrated into users' lives thus reducing the overall environmental impact at the system level. A better understanding of user behavior will allow this knowledge to be better integrated into more complex, system level models. As an initial step, this paper seeks an experimental framework to identify important parameters to be measured. For many products,… Show more
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