Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors

Barreto, Mary; Szóstek, Agnieszka; Karapanos, Evangelos; Nunes, Nuno; Pereira, Lucas; Quintal, Filipe

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.07.042

Cited by 32 publications

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“…Although we found that it was predominately one person in a household interacting with the HeatDial interface, negotiations about comfort took place amongst the entire household. That family structures play an import role in negotiations about sustainable behavior in the home is also discussed by Barreto et al [3]. Moreover, as our study show, design and technology take part in shaping people's understanding of, e.g., thermal comfort.…”

Section: Supporting Social Interactionssupporting

confidence: 79%

Assisted Shifting of Electricity Use

Kjeldskov

Skov

2018

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Shifting is an energy-conserving interaction strategy for moving energy consumption to times where it is sustainably favorable. This interaction strategy is attracting increasing interest within sustainable HCI studies. While most of these consider how interactive technology can change household behavior, only few report on how shifting is experienced in everyday life when assisted by automation. In this study, we investigate an interactive technology that assists households to shift electricity consumption to times when electricity is cheap or more sustainable. Our study was conducted as a long-term field deployment for 6 to 18 months with eight households, each living with an interactive prototype that shifts running times for a heat pump within user-defined boundaries. Our findings show that managing heat pumps towards assisted shifting was well-received by all households because it was a convenient way to shift electricity consumption. Shifting electricity use facilitated price savings of 6.8% to 16.9%. Nevertheless, our findings also reveal a conflict between the system design, and how householders actually interact with their heating system and experience assisted shifting. Based on the eight households' experiences we present three overall themes of convenience, control, and complexity that each describes different aspects of long-term real-life use of automatic technology assisting households to shift electricity use. We discuss the broader implications of these findings and the role of design and future sustainability technology in everyday life.

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Section: Supporting Social Interactionssupporting

confidence: 79%

Assisted Shifting of Electricity Use

Kjeldskov

Skov

2018

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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“…Unfortunately, although deep learning is certainly much more effective than surface learning in numerous respects, Fletcher's and Potts's opinion has not been confirmed by established research demonstrating that "only a small fraction of proenvironmental behavior can be directly linked to environmental knowledge and environmental awareness" (Kollmuss and Agyeman, 2002, p. 250). The gap between knowledge/awareness and behavior-which can be found in all areas of life-is explained by the fact that "at least 80% of the motives for pro-environmental or non-environmental behavior seem to be situational factors and other internal factors" (Barr et al, 2011; see also Barreto et al, 2014;ibid). In concrete terms, this means that although concern is expressed about ocean sustainability (see e.g., Gelcich et al, 2014;Potts et al, 2016), people ultimately give it a low priority in their lives within the context of everyday issues.…”

Section: Personal Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feasible Options for Behavior Change Toward More Effective Ocean Literacy: A Systematic Review

Stoll-Kleemann

2019

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Effective ocean literacy requires appropriate individual behavior, but achieving this-based on behavior change-is extremely difficult. Social-psychological research shows that even generating knowledge and awareness toward protecting the environment-including the oceans-very rarely produces behavior change. The correlation between knowledge and behavior change is demonstrably surprisingly low. Based upon a systematic interdisciplinary literature review, this article evaluates the factors constituting behavior that are important for ocean literacy. Furthermore, it includes an analysis of options for individual behavior change. The literature review covers research and theories from behavioral sciences such as social, environmental, and emotional psychology, as well as from other social sciences. Specifically, research on pro-environmental behavior is evaluated and applied to the specific case of ocean-related behaviors and ocean literacy. As a result, the model of pro-environmental behavior by Kollmuss and Agyeman has successfully been transferred to increase the effectiveness of ocean literacy because it considers internal (e.g., emotions and values) and external factors (e.g., politico-economic and socio-cultural), which are crucial to achieve behavior change. Further results show that the theoretical analysis of different influence factors of ocean related behavior help to identify options to enhance ocean literacy, partially not yet broadly applied in this field, such as reputation-based incentives, social marketing, and successfully diffusing social change, which is illustrated within two examples of success stories. Nevertheless, improvements remain challenging due to barriers identified on the individual level (e.g., cognitive dissonance and moral disengagement) and adverse political and economic power relations in light of rapidly increasing environmental problems in our oceans.

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“…Our study exposed consumers to a disruptive scenario to which the electric grid is certainly approaching. Moreover we decided to divide our study into two users studies in order to better cater for two very different target users , adults, who have power in the household and children since research has shown the importance of children in energy savings techniques in household (Barreto et al, 2014;Quintal et al, 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Adults are normally responsible for buying the energy consumption appliances and paying the bills. Children were included in this study since research showed the importance of the younger demographic in the household as parents try to educate their children (Barreto et al, 2014;Quintal et al, 2013). …”

Section: Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%