Abstract
This paper presents a novel application of participatory design fiction for sustainable domestic energy consumption. In our study we examine how social practices relate to a newly developed energy management system introduced to households. We explore how design fiction can be used to identify current design limitations and to showcase future design directions to overcome these limitations. In particular, we investigated how energy consumption feedback is leaving users in a state of "helplessness" despite raising awareness of their environmental impact. Through participatory fictional future story-writing workshops we identified five levels of empowerment that design for sustainability practitioners can engage with. Our proposal is to use those levels of empowerment to reframe sustainable design by shifting from behaviour to social practices and from awareness to empowerment.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | CSCW´15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conferene on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |
| Pages | 1649-1658 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
| Event | CSCW 2015 - 18th ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing - Duration: 14 Mar 2015 → 18 Mar 2015 |
Conference
| Conference | CSCW 2015 - 18th ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing |
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| Period | 14/03/15 → 18/03/15 |
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
Research Field
- Former Research Field - Technology Experience
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