Sustainably unpersuaded

Brynjarsdóttir, Hrönn; Håkansson, Maria; Pierce, James; Baumer, Eric P. S.; DiSalvo, Carl; Sengers, Phoebe

doi:10.1145/2207676.2208539

Cited by 364 publications

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“…At a general level the main implication of our work is that we need to go "beyond individual persuasion". While such an argument had been put forward before by others in the research community, based mostly on reflection and meta-reviews [5,21,26,31], we corroborate such argument through data from our workshops and observations. Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, leveraging our findings from the field, we propose three specific directions for the research community where we see opportunities for interactive interventions that complement and go beyond existing interventions.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Little can be found in the literature to date about the role that interactive technology may take around policy to support sustainability. Even though others have convincingly questioned or criticised the emphasis on individual consumers found behind most sustainable HCI interventions [5,21,26,31,43], it is rare to find explicit and direct references to policies, whether at a company or public level. We consider this to be an important gap in the literature, given the central role that policy plays in the daily life of the workplace as well as, more generally, in society.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding Energy Consumption at Work

Bedwell

Costanza

Jewell

2016

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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Most work around technological interventions for energy conservation to date has focussed on changing individual behaviour. Hence, there is limited understanding of communal settings, such as office environments, as sites for intervention. Even when energy consumption in the workplace has been considered, the emphasis has typically been on the individual. To address this gap, we conducted a study of energy consumption and management in one workplace, based on a combination of workshops with a broad range of stakeholders, and quantitative data inspections. We report and discuss findings from this study, in light of prior literature, and we present a set of implications for design and further research. In particular, three themes, and associated intervention opportunities, emerged from our data: (1) energy wastage related to "errors"; (2) the role of company policies and the negotiation that surrounds their implementation; and (3) the bigger energy picture of procurement, construction and travel.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Energy Consumption at Work

Bedwell

Costanza

Jewell

2016

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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“…This focus on individual behavioural change has been criticized in sustainable HCI in general [58] suggesting that it is not possible to put the responsibility in individual actions without taking into account the social, economical and cultural context. Davies [48] discusses that ICT solutions related to food production and consumption that are developed in isolation from the everyday practices and realities of users run the risk of hindering rather than forwarding possibilities for sustainable transitions.…”

Section: Changed Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable food systems with ICT

Svenfelt

Zapico

2016

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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Abstract-The food system is burdened by many and severe negative environmental and social impacts. Two of the reasons for the impacts are the increasing scale and globalisation of the food system. ICT has been put forward as a means to enhance sustainability in society, yet the potential for food systems is underexplored. In this paper we review ICT solutions for improved sustainability of food systems, which are used in practice or are discussed as potential solutions. The aim is to identify ICT solutions that can potentially enhance sustainability in the food system. We review mostly scientific literature. The ICT solutions are categorized according to four main purposes of the approach, to 1) efficiency through monitoring and assessment of environmental impact, 2) enhance transparency and traceability in the food system, 3) creating network between actors in the food chains, 4) influence and change food practices. We conclude that there is no coherent research field covering ICT in food systems. The papers reviewed are scattered over several disciplines and scientific journals. We also conclude that there is a predominance of research on monitoring of food production and transparency and traceability in the food chain. More research is needed that take on holistic approaches and include several parts of the food system. Furthermore, we would also like to see more research on what sustainable food systems could be like and how ICT could support and perhaps sometimes hinder such developments.

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“…At the outset of this project, we built on previous work we had done trying to extend notions of environmental HCI. Dissatisfied with the instrumental and prescriptive nature of many designs in the field at the time, and influenced by the critiques and arguments of colleagues such as [2,5,19,21] we had already produced designs to balance aesthetic and resource-oriented views of the home's microenvironment [10], to provide feedback about electricity consumption at a community level in the form of a graph painted directly on a neighbourhood street [1], and to gather and condense online discourse about energy-related issues as a way of reflecting and disrupting the understandings of a number of existing UK energy communities [11].…”

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Designing and Making the Datacatchers

Boucher

Gaver

2017

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

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In this paper we describe the Datacatcher, a location-aware, tangible and embodied mobile device that displays a continuous stream of statements about its location that are drawn from a large number of data sources and which speak to sociopolitical issues. We describe how the design and our underlying research interests emerged and changed over the course of three distinct phases of development: the device's conceptual design, its refinement to a final design, and the final detailing leading to batch production of 130 of the devices. We discuss the Datacatcher as resonant with many current issues in HCI, including augmented reality, environmental issues, political systems and using data as a design material.

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Sustainably unpersuaded

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Understanding Energy Consumption at Work

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