LIVING LAB: user‐driven innovation for sustainability

Liedtke, Christa; Welfens, Maria J.; Rohn, Holger; Nordmann, Julia

doi:10.1108/14676371211211809

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“…Experimental research design and Co-Creation processes need to be elaborated (see [57]). It is about new user integrated production and consumption or the design of social innovations that foster and exploit the dynamics of social distinction.…”

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Microfoundations for Sustainable Growth with Eco-Intelligent Product Service-Arrangements

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This paper argues that the contemporary growth paradigm needs to be reconsidered on a micro level of consumption and product service-systems. This becomes necessary since a dynamic link between macro strategies and micro implementation of sustainable growth is missing up to date. Therefore, mainstream sustainability strategies of efficiency and consistency are extended by sufficiency in order to integrate strategies for individual welfare within their social environment. Limits to and drivers for growth are revised and updated socially in terms of qualitative values, diminishing marginal utility or symbolic social distinction. We elaborate a definition of sustainable growth that fosters individual welfare by enhancing social enactment within the boundaries of environmental space. Shifting focus on social aspects in design fosters more sustainable production and consumption patterns while sustaining individual welfare. We derive latent indications for eco-intelligent product service-arrangements and evaluate to concepts by referring to introduced definitions and according indications. With doing so, we illustrate new pathways for the translation of sustainable growth and strategies into product service-systems.

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“…Variance in resource consumption by private households shows according potentials when addressing consumption patterns properly [57]. This is our ecological baseline throughout the article.…”

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Microfoundations for Sustainable Growth with Eco-Intelligent Product Service-Arrangements

2013

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“…In the case of GoEco!, we try to capture a large and diverse sample of the population, testing our hypotheses in a so-called "living lab" [34], a data collection method related to citizen science [35]. A reason for using a living lab is the diversity of people, which facilitates generalization [36]. Overall, in fact, approximately 400 people are actively participating in the living lab.…”

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Exploiting Fitness Apps for Sustainable Mobility - Challenges Deploying the GoEco! App

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Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016

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Abstract-The large interest in analyzing one's own fitness led to the development of more and more powerful smartphone applications. Most are capable of tracking a user's position and mode of locomotion, data that do not only reflect personal health, but also mobility choices. A large field of research is concerned with mobility analysis and planning for a variety of reasons, including sustainable transport. Collecting data on mobility behavior using fitness tracker apps is a tempting choice, because they include many of the desired functions, most people own a smartphone and installing a fitness tracker is quick and convenient. However, as their original focus is on measuring fitness behavior, there are a number of difficulties in their usage for mobility tracking. In this paper we denote the various challenges we faced when deploying GoEco! Tracker (an app using the Moves R fitness tracker to collect mobility measurements), and provide an analysis on how to best overcome them. Finally, we summarize findings after one month of large scale testing with a few hundred users within the GoEco! living lab performed in Switzerland.

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“…The lifestyle of a large part of the world's population is characterized by high levels of consumption, and this is responsible for a huge increase in the extraction of resources and environmental problems. In industrialized countries, housing, mobility, food and electricity use account for more than 70% of the impact of domestic consumption (LIEDTKE et al 2012; ETC/SCP 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%