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Making the user more efficient: design for sustainable behaviour
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User behaviour is a significant determinant of a product's environmental impact; while engineering advances permit increased efficiency of product operation, the user's decisions and habits ultimately have a major effect on the energy or other resources used by the product. There is thus a need to change users' behaviour. A range of design techniques developed in diverse contexts suggest opportunities for engineers, designers and other stakeholders working in the field of sustainable innovation to affect users' behaviour at the point of interaction with the product or system, in effect ‘making the user more efficient’. Approaches to changing users' behaviour from a number of fields are reviewed and discussed, including: strategic design of affordances and behaviour‐shaping constraints to control or affect energy‐ or other resource‐using interactions; the use of different kinds of feedback and persuasive technology techniques to encourage or guide users to reduce their environmental impact; and context‐based systems which use feedback to adjust their behaviour to run at optimum efficiency and reduce the opportunity for user‐affected inefficiency. Example implementations in the sustainable engineering and ecodesign field are suggested and discussed.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lockton, D., Harrison, D., & Stanton, N.
- Affiliations
- Brunel University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Lockton, Dan
- Venue
- International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2008-03
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-8
- ISSN
- 1939-7038 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-7046
- OpenAlex
- W2104910126
- Cited by
- 139
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 19.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Sustainable Engineering (publishedVersion)
- Warwick Research Archive Portal (University of Warwick) (acceptedVersion)
- Brunel University Research Archive (BURA) (Brunel University London) (submittedVersion)
- Archive of research processes and output produced by RCA (Royal College of Art) (submittedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Sustainable Design and Development
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law › Pro-Environmental Behavior and Attitudes
- Keywords
- user behavior change, sustainable design, eco-design, affordances, feedback, persuasive technology, context-aware systems, energy efficiency, resource efficiency, sustainable innovation, environmental impact of products
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