Pervasive Computing and Environmental Sustainability: Two Conference Workshops

Foth, Marcus; Paulos, Eric; Satchell, Christine

doi:10.1109/mprv.2009.13

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“…Such work asks designers to consider the "political and cultural context" [37] so they might develop effective solutions to large-scale societal problems. This broadening of the design space promotes designers to move beyond individual action and toward designing for collective action, by focusing on regional and national contexts [47,52]; activist groups [52,6,33,99], and/or nonprofit organizations [78,122].…”

Section: Designing For Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design

Dombrowski

Harmon

Fox

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

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Section: Designing For Transformationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design

Dombrowski

Harmon

Fox

2016

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

280

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“…Still, by creating a tighter coupling between the collective basis of carbon footprints and carbon footprint estimates, Better Carbon may help enable a shift in how people think about environmental sustainability. Rather than necessarily providing a more accurate simulation, Better Carbon uses a new, collaborative, implicit simulation to help motivate people to take collective action [14]. Even so, being able to more tightly link estimates to real world actions (such as through advances in ubiquitous sensing systems, e.g.…”

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“…For example, GreenScanner [12] uses community-generated reports to provide environmental impact information on household products, letting the community both use and contribute information. Such projects demonstrate the increasing interest of the research community in enabling the move from individual action to collective action in reducing environmental impact (e.g., [13,14]). …”

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Collaborative filtering and carbon footprint calculation

Ross

Shantharam

Tomlinson

2010

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology

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Abstract-An increasingly common way for people to measure and understand their individual environmental impact is by using an online carbon footprint calculator. Although a wide variety of these calculators are available, the vast majority shares the same form of user interaction and calculation methods, limiting the reach of these tools and introducing a number of problems for informing users of their environmental impact. We find that the interaction afforded by popular calculators-in addition to considering only a limited number of impact factors at a single instant in time-treats a person's carbon footprint as an individual matter, rather than drawing attention to the interconnectivity and wider impacts of footprints across the person's broader community. To address these problems, we present the Better Carbon calculator, which uses collaborative filtering and location-based calculation to provide an individual footprint estimate while simultaneously affecting and improving the estimates for other people in a user's community. IndexTerms-carbon calculator, carbon footprint, collaborative filtering, estimating individual impact, environmental sustainability.

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“…[6] point to a need for consideration of collectivist versus individualist cultural dimensions. As technologies become more pervasive they also often need to persuade, if they are to assist us in our daily lives [7]. Speaking to this conclusion were researchers such as Davis [8] who considered the perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use of ICT as determinants for user acceptance of those technologies.…”

Section: Persuasive Technologymentioning

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Curbing Resource Consumption Using Team-Based Feedback

Hasan

Medland

Foth

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Abstract. This paper details a team-based feedback approach for reducing resource consumption. The approach uses paper printing within office environments as a case study. It communicates the print usage of each participant's team rather than the participant's individual print usage. Feedback is provided weekly via emails and contains normative information, along with eco-metrics and team-based comparative statistics. The approach was empirically evaluated to study the effectiveness of the feedback method. The experiment comprised of 16 people belonging to 4 teams with data on their print usage gathered over 58 weeks, using the first 30-35 weeks as a baseline. The study showed a significant reduction in individual printing with an average of 28%. The experiment confirms the underlying hypothesis that participants are persuaded to reduce their print usage in order to improve the overall printing behaviour of their teams. The research provides clear pathways for future research to qualitatively investigate our findings.

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Pervasive Computing and Environmental Sustainability: Two Conference Workshops

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Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design

Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design

Collaborative filtering and carbon footprint calculation

Curbing Resource Consumption Using Team-Based Feedback

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