Leveraging Social Networks To Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints

Mankoff, Jennifer; Matthews, Deanna H.; Fussell, Susan R.; Johnson, Matthew S.

doi:10.1109/hicss.2007.325

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“…Pierce, Odom and Blevis [21], Froehlich, Findlater and Landay [11] and Pierce and Paulos [22] describe the various eco-visualization devices that have been constructed in order to make visible the flow of electrical energy and to highlight the amount of electricity consumed by a household. He and Greenberg [13], Mankoff, et al [16], and Foster, et al [9] describe the ways in which social networking systems and computer mediated communication have been used as means of supporting and motivating energy conservation and sustainable consumption.…”

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An Image of Electricity: Towards an Understanding of How People Perceive Electricity

Chisik

2011

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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Abstract.Although an enormous amount of research effort has been devoted to understanding people's energy consumption habits, visualizing their consumption and finding ways of motivating them towards more sustainable behaviours we are still in the dark with regards to people's basic perception of electricity, their concept of what electricity is and their notion of the consumption rates of various electrical devices. In this study we have employed a sketching methodology to elicit people's basic mental image of what electricity is, how they conceive of the electrical infrastructure in their home and which devices they think represent the largest drain on their wallets. Preliminary analysis of the results show that people do not have a clear mental model of electricity and tend to associate the size of the device and the duration of use with higher rates of consumption regardless of the type of device, the type of use it is put to and its actual consumption level.

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An Image of Electricity: Towards an Understanding of How People Perceive Electricity

Chisik

2011

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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“…Mankoff, et al found that "strong participation in social movements is most likely when activities can be easily integrated into daily life," suggesting that integrating prosocial feedback into commonly used sites is most likely to have the greatest effect on participation [15]. Additionally, they find that taking advantage of existing social networks through popular websites can create "motivational schemes that leverage group membership."…”

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Motivation for Participation in Online Neighborhood Watch Communities: An Empirical Study Involving Invitation Letters

Violi

Shneiderman

Hanson³

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and 2011 IEEE Third Int'l Conference on Social Computing

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Abstract-This paper presents a three-part experiment designed to investigate the motivations of users of a community safety and neighborhood watch social networking website. The experiment centers around an intervention into the invitation system that current users employ to invite nonmembers to join the site, and involves several versions of an invitation email which differ by expressing one of four possible motivations for using such a site. The research presented investigates how potential users' choice of whether or not to join the site is affected by the use case presented by the invitation. It also includes an investigation of the motivations of current users of the site, as reported in an online survey. The experiment yielded no significant difference in responses to the emails. Overall, invitations that included a specific motivation slightly outperformed those which did not, but not to a statistically significant degree. We conclude that although users have specific motivations for using the site, as reported in the survey, attempting to increase response rates to invitation emails by suggesting use cases of the site is surprisingly unlikely to be successful.

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“…The advancement and availability of sensing systems for environmentally related activities (e.g., human activity inference [4]) and interactive displays to feedback this data (e.g., mobile phones) provides a rich space of prospects for new types of ecofeedback solutions [5]. Currently there is an increasing number of commercial applications that provide real time energy monitoring.…”

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WATTSBurning: Design and Evaluation of an Innovative Eco-Feedback System

Quintal

Pereira

Nunes

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. This paper reports a 15 weeks study of artistic eco-feedback deployed in six houses with an innovative sensing infrastructure and visualization strategy. The paper builds on previous work that showed a significant decrease in user awareness after a short period with a relapse in consumption. In this study we aimed to investigate if new forms of feedback could overcome this issue, maintaining the users awareness for longer periods of time. The study presented here aims at understanding if people are more aware of their energy consumption after the installation of a new, art inspired eco-feedback. The research question was then: does artistic eco-feedback provide an increased awareness over normal informative feedback? And does that awareness last longer? To answer this questions participants were interviewed and their consumption patterns analyzed. The main contribution of the paper is to advance our knowledge about the effectiveness of eco-feedback and provide guidelines for implementation of novel eco-feedback visualizations that overcome the relapse behavior pattern.

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Leveraging Social Networks To Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints

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Cited by 126 publications

References 15 publications

An Image of Electricity: Towards an Understanding of How People Perceive Electricity

An Image of Electricity: Towards an Understanding of How People Perceive Electricity

Motivation for Participation in Online Neighborhood Watch Communities: An Empirical Study Involving Invitation Letters

WATTSBurning: Design and Evaluation of an Innovative Eco-Feedback System

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