Beyond behaviour change: technological artefacts and characterological development

Boon, Boudewijn; Wever, Renee; Quist, Jaco

doi:10.1080/19397038.2014.990999

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“…Design should aim to go beyond behavioral change and transform it into conscious and continuous routines (Boon, Wever & Quist, 2015). Focusing on behavioral change aims to have a greater impact beyond changing people's actions, continuously fostering that behavior in other activities, together with the one that was intervened in.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…| doi: 10.5354/0719-837x.2018.49520 3 billy cash: digital piggy bank introduced the topic of emotions, a subject closely related to human-product interaction. Desmet and Pohlmeyer (2013) It is possible to make a distinction between virtuous actions and virtuous behavior (Boon, Wever & Quist, 2015;Hursthouse & Pettigrove, 2016). The first does not imply that the individual is virtuous, because he/she can be reacting to a situation in what may be collectively considered desirable, without necessarily believing in it; or the individual may be reacting to a certain stimulus in the environment; or the individual may not even be aware that a virtuous action is taking place.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The latter implies a conscious process aligned with one's internal beliefs. Design explorations on virtue generally focus on isolated actions (Boon, Wever & Quist, 2015). Another example is SMaRT -Save More Tomorrow (Thaler & Benartzi, 2004), a saving program for retirement that proposed a change in the way people decided to save money.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Billy Cash: Alcancía digital para promover comportamientos de ahorro con significado

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Casais

2018

RChD: creac. pensam. (En línea)

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Virtue is a fundamental aspect of well-being. Past research has proposed that emotional-driven design can be a powerful mediator towards supporting virtue. However, virtue-focused solutions generally target isolated actions. Here, using saving as an example of virtuous behavior we present a design case-Billy Cash, a digital piggy bank that allows users to reflect during the saving process and extend the appreciation of the purchased item-that aims to demonstrate how design can facilitate virtuous behavior that is sustainable and can promote actual change. Through the analysis and evaluation of the design case, we propose a framework of design for virtuous behavior. The framework sets a scenario for design interventions that contemplate virtuous actions to be transformed into virtuous behaviors mediated by the resignification of resources and stimuli behind the experience. Keywords: design for virtue, meaningful saving, positive design, virtuous behavior.Resumen. La virtud es un elemento fundamental del bienestar. Investigaciones anteriores han propuesto que el diseño inspirado en las emociones puede ser un poderoso mediador para apoyar la virtuosidad. Sin embargo, las soluciones existentes generalmente se enfocan en acciones aisladas.En este artículo utilizamos el ejemplo del ahorro como un caso de diseño -Billy Cash, una alcancía digital que permite a los usuarios reflexionar durante el proceso de ahorro y extender la apreciación de un objeto comprado-para demostrar cómo el diseño puede facilitar un comportamiento virtuoso que es sostenible e promueve cambio. A través del análisis y evaluación del caso de diseño, proponemos un modelo para diseñar para comportamientos virtuosos. El modelo establece un escenario para las intervenciones de diseño que contemplan acciones virtuosas para ser transformadas en comportamientos virtuosos mediadas por la resignificación de recursos y estímulos detrás de la experiencia. Palabras clave: ahorro con significado, comportamientos virtuosos, diseño para la virtud, diseño positivo.

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“…In order to be able to cope with this complexity from a system perspective, the focus of design thereby shifts from single products (e.g., energy efficiency and usability problems of a product) to tackling challenges at a sociocultural level (Adams, Jeanrenaud, Bessant, Denyer, & Overy, 2016). When this shift of focuses comes down to the practical level of design, it implies that design practitioners need to not only analyze the interaction between an individual user and a designed artefact, but also take into account why and how a specific behavior can be influenced by the real-life sociocultural settings (Boon, Wever, & Quist, 2015;Brynjarsdottir et al, 2012).…”

Section: Design For Sustainable Everyday Lifementioning

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On the other side of change : Exploring the role that design can play in retaining sustainable doings

Chu

2021

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology. Dissertations

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The world keeps changing more rapidly. Induced by context change disruptions such as individual life-course changes and macro socio-economical events, the way people carry out their everyday life doings is also undergoing a dynamic transition process, which may open up windows of opportunity for design to transit people's behavior in a more sustainable direction. A successful behavior transition entails not only changing people's wrongdoings but also retaining the existing desired doings. However, over the last decade, the field of Design for Sustainable Everyday Life seems to have grown accustomed to the concept of change. The potential role that design may play in retaining people's existing sustainable doings has been ill-addressed. This dissertation aims to develop an activity-based theoretical approach to help design researchers and practitioners better understand how people transit behavior when they undergo context change disruptions, and further explore design implications informed by the sustainable behavior retention perspective. The study comprises two parts. In the first part, six explorative case studies were used to investigate the applicability of adopting activity theory (AT) as a theoretical lens for understanding context change-induced behavior transition phenomena. As a result, an ATbased framework was iterated, developed and validated. In the second part, by incorporating the proposed framework with the theoretical understanding generated from a prescriptive meta-synthesis study, an AT-informed toolkit prototype was developed and evaluated. Three key findings can be identified. First, at a conceptual level, the study reveals that the design for sustainable behavior retention perspective may complement the design for behavior change perspective by facilitating a bottom-up and context-focused relative approach to achieve sustainability. Second, at a design analytical level, three dimensions of AT: i). hierarchical structure, ii). long-term development and iii). reality-based contextual scales of analysis are especially useful for systematically analyzing the impacts of context change disruptions on people's everyday life doings. Third, at a design synthesis level, the ATinformed design toolkit prototype and the extracted design implications can provide a systemic view that helps designers take both sustainable behavior change and retention perspectives into early-stage design ideation. The contribution of the dissertation is two folds. First, it introduces the perspective of sustainable behavior retention into the field of Design for Sustainable Everyday Life. Second, it provides an activity-based theoretical framework as a potential lens for designers to better cope with context change disruptions.

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“…We tentatively call this new direction 'designs with benefits'. This door has already been opened a little by contributions of, for example, Niedderer (2007) on mindful design, and Boon, Wever and Quist (2015) on virtue ethics and character development that can support sustainability. We now want to push the door wide open.…”

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confidence: 99%

Design with benefits: hearth fire nights and bittersweet chores

Boess

Pohlmeyer²

2016

Proceedings of DRS

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This paper presents 'designs with benefits' by capitalising on the joint benefits of sustainability and wellbeing. Designs with benefits are proposed through four 'in--between' themes for design goals as a new direction in supporting sustainability through design. We conducted post--hoc case study research on student projects from two studios: a studio working on sustainability, and a studio working on wellbeing. We searched for aspects in the sustainable studio's work that would promote wellbeing, and, conversely, for aspects in the wellbeing studio's work that would promote sustainability. Looking at three student projects we selected from each studio resulted in four themes we propose as in--betweens to open the door towards crossover approaches. They are: open reflection, pathway activities, resource and material preservation as side effect, and broader insights. Examples of design work illustrating the themes are given and implications for sustainable design discussed.

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Beyond behaviour change: technological artefacts and characterological development

Cited by 8 publications

References 75 publications

Billy Cash: Alcancía digital para promover comportamientos de ahorro con significado

Billy Cash: Alcancía digital para promover comportamientos de ahorro con significado

On the other side of change : Exploring the role that design can play in retaining sustainable doings

Design with benefits: hearth fire nights and bittersweet chores

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