HCI and sustainability: the role of macrostructures

Emilie Møllenbach; Jens Villiam Hoff; Kasper Hornbæk

doi:10.1145/2212776.2223769

HCI and sustainability: the role of macrostructures

Emilie Møllenbach, Jens Villiam Hoff, Kasper Hornbæk

Department of Computer Science

17 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

Sustained behavior changes are required to reduce the impact of human society on the environment. Much research on how HCI may help to do so focuses on changing behaviour by providing information directed at an individual or a microstructure (e.g. household). We propose societal macrostructures (e.g. municipalities) and their interaction with microstructures as a focus for HCI aimed at designing behavior change. We present two ongoing case studies involving municipalities in Denmark and discuss how and why macrostructures may be used in the design of HCI for behavior based environmental suatainability.

Translated title of the contribution	HCI og bæredygtighed: makrostrukturernes rolle
Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '12 extended abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Number of pages	6
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	2012
Pages	2159-2164
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-1016-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2212776.2223769
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012 - Austin, United States Duration: 5 May 2012 → 10 May 2012

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	05/05/2012 → 10/05/2012

Keywords

Faculty of Science

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10.1145/2212776.2223769

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