Patterns of persuasion for sustainability

Knowles, Bran; Blair, Lynne; Walker, Stuart; Coulton, Paul; Thomas, Lisa; Mullagh, Louise

doi:10.1145/2598510.2598536

Cited by 52 publications

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“…We believe that our study can facilitate the identification of design patterns to build better IS solutions for sustainability, in the line with the efforts like those of Knowles [27] [28]. Likewise, would be worth exploring the role that certain technologies can play, given the interoperability demands in order to support decisions, such as XBRL for standardization and semantic meaning.…”

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confidence: 68%

The role of interoperability in sustainable decisions: the case of CDP

Mora-Rodriguez¹,

Preist²

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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Abstract-Climate change, pollution, deforestation and water scarcity are important problems that human activities provoke. Business decisions and actions are the major causes of environmental degradation. Decisions based on broader aspects than financial ones are required to bring solutions to these environmental challenges. For that purpose, businesses need a transformation in their management and operations. The information is critical to ensure the decision-making process, in this study we present the corporate reporting ecosystem that businesses face today. The opportunities and pending challenges that this scenario of information signifies, and the role that the interoperability, understood as the ability to exchange and use information given a heterogeneous scenario of organisations and information, could play to achieve the business transformation, in the light of the European Framework for Interoperability (European Commission, 2015), are explored. CDP (formerly known as Carbon Disclosure Project) is the relevant case studied, as it is one of the most important environmental reporting initiatives in the world. In particular, we explore the role of interoperability in CDP through interviews with 17 CDP members.These respondents being a set of companies and their stakeholders, including investors, governments, scholars and NGOs. As a conclusion, we confirm that (1) interoperability has a role to play to empower more environmental actions in businesses; (2) specific characteristics of interoperability are demanded in legal, organisational, semantic and technical levels in order to consider environmental information in decisions; (3) the need for ICT solutions to tackle interoperability challenges is mainly required in the areas of data standardization, data connectivity and data integration with applications and processes.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 68%

The role of interoperability in sustainable decisions: the case of CDP

Mora-Rodriguez¹,

Preist²

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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“…In addition, these findings illustrate how playful physical computing approaches [e.g. 17] have the potential to engage people in serious topics through creating opportunities for people to reflect on their habits and how they align with their values [25].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…Fear appeals are particularly prevalent in climate change campaigns as a way of attracting attention to the issue [32]. However, fear can run the risk of desensitising individuals [32] or potentially lead to helplessness [25].…”

Section: Information Campaignsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Squeezy Green Balls

Jennett

Iacovides

Cox

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

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We need collective action to tackle global warming. However, research shows that people switch off from being concerned about the environment because they are often too busy, or fail to appreciate their ability to make a difference. An alternative approach is to run campaigns that are able to engage large numbers of people and engender feelings of concern and empowerment. This could then kick-start a range of pro-environmental habits. We present the development and evaluation of a playful installation that aimed to attract attention, and stimulate discussion about environmental issues amongst university staff and students. The first prototype was shown to successfully attract people to engage and interact with the installation. The second prototype was deployed in-the-wild, over the course of a week. We evaluated the extent to which the installation was successful at attracting attention, and in encouraging people to interact with it, to reflect on their habits and to discuss environmental issues with others. We found the Green Ball Kiosk was a fun way to raise discussions about green issues, to encourage the adoption of new environmentally friendly behaviours and to prompt people to maintain existing ones. We suggest that interactive installations such as this can be effective at promoting awareness and generating a 'social buzz' about environmental topics when exhibited as a temporary installation.

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“…However, despite the fact that the field is expanding, several researchers have asked if we do enough, and, if we do the right things [1,4,8]? It can be daunting for researchers to tackle global problems such as climate change, famine and biodiversity loss [7,9], to name just a few of the large issues the world is and will continue to grapple with during the remainder of the 21st century.…”

Section: Workhop Descriptionmentioning

confidence: 99%