Pervasive Computing Approaches to Environmental Sustainability

Cardenas-Tamayo, Rolando A.; García-Macías, J. Antonio; Miller, Timothy M.; Rich, Patrick; Davis, Janet; Albesa, Joan; Gasulla, Manel; Higuera, Jorge; Penella, M.T.; García, José Javier Gómez; Fernández-Montes, Alejandro; Grado-Caffaro, Maria-Angeles; Kappel, Karin; Grechenig, Thomas; Umut, İlhan; Uçar, Erdem; Wall, Josh; Ward, John

doi:10.1109/mprv.2009.14

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“…The typical users-in-control technique is eco-feedback [16,17], in which users are reminded of their resource use. Techniques on the product-in-control end, also known as smart design or intelligent design [18,19], involve automatically taking actions to ensure behavior changes, sometimes without user knowledge or consent. Other techniques including behavior steering or behavior enabling, in which users are encouraged by constraints or affordances embedded in a design [20] to behave in certain ways.…”

Section: Design For Sustainable Behaviormentioning

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Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

Bao

Hughes

Burnell

et al. 2018

Journal of Mechanical Design

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Emotional responses to a product can be critical in influencing how the product will be used. This study explores the emotions that arise from users' interaction with eco-feedback products, and investigates links between emotions and users' resource conservation behaviors. In-lab experiments were conducted with 68 participants of varying backgrounds. Each participant was shown sketches of four conceptual designs of eco-feedback products and reported how they would feel and behave in different scenarios using the products. Two styles of eco-feedback design, quantitative and figurative, were compared to each other and were compared to neutral designs, which had little or no feedback information. Results showed that taking resource conservation actions such as turning off lights was highly correlated with negative emotions toward wasting resources, such as guilt, upset, embarrassment, and annoyance. Users' evaluations of esthetics, usefulness, and overall quality of eco-feedback products, however, were highly correlated with positive emotions toward resource conservation, described as satisfied, proud, interested, and joyful. Figurative designs were observed to evoke much stronger emotions among younger participants than older ones. Ultimately, we hope our findings are useful to the designers of eco-feedback products.

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Section: Design For Sustainable Behaviormentioning

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Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

Bao

Hughes

Burnell

et al. 2018

Journal of Mechanical Design

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“…Sustainable HCI and computational sustainability research demonstrate prominent significance as it marks the first stride for harnessing computations and interaction design to address environmental threats. A growing body of literature recognizes the significance of sustainable computing, modeling, and interaction designs [1,3,9,10,16]. The past decade has witnessed notable development of environmentally friendly ubiquitous computing interventions for sensing local surroundings [23], modeling [9], and nudging individual behavior towards sustainable practices [6].…”

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Beyond Boundaries

Gaikwad

2020

Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

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In today's Anthropocene era, human-and-climate induced sustainability challenges threaten the livelihood of vulnerable communities across the planet. To mitigate the risks of sustainability threats, data-and-theory driven scientific models, artistic practices, and environment designs play a critical role. However, these methods alone fail to reach a broader audience and translate into public discourse for participatory collective action. In this paper, we present Beyond Boundaries, a renaissance that re-envisions the relationship between ecological arts and computational thinking to contextualize threats to sustainability at regional and global scales. We establish an integrated framework combining Earth remote sensing satellite time-series, half a decade of ecological arts, and a public exhibition to curate the symbiotic relationship between arts and science. Beyond Boundaries sheds new light on how synergistic associations among disciplines can inspire scientific inquiry, artistic imaginations, and civic engagement-and-discourse for sustainability.

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“…Positioning can be used in large venues, such as airports, which can be positioned for each staff member, in real-time to understand the position of the staff. In the hospital environment, we can locate the doctor to see the doctor's work [1] .…”

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Research on Indoor Pedestrian Positioning System Design Based on User Behavior Perception

Dong

2014

AMM

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With the development of computer and embedded technology, ubiquitous computing age is coming. In the ubiquitous age, people could get all kinds of services anywhere and at any time. In this paper, we design an indoor location system based on ultrasonic sensor and radio frequency technology. The ultrasonic positioning technology has many merits of high positioning accuracy, simple circuit structure and low cost. There are some components such as locating system, communication system, location system, security system and so on, emphasized supporting technologies in order to provide researchers with general cognition. The principle and the design of the system are described in detail. The system consists of the single chip circuit, the circuit of ultrasonic, the circuit of radio frequency signal, communication interface circuit and so on. Perceptual system can promote environmental intelligence and human services development, but also can promote public places security monitoring and early warning intelligence and automation.

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Pervasive Computing Approaches to Environmental Sustainability

Cited by 7 publications

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Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

Beyond Boundaries

Research on Indoor Pedestrian Positioning System Design Based on User Behavior Perception

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