People are ready to adapt to a more eco-friendly lifestyle when they are aware of the possible problems of their lifestyle. Designing for persuasion works when feedback to a user increases awareness without intruding upon a primary task.
We designed two Mac OS X Widgets named “Coralog” and “Timelog.” They detect the duration of a user’s [...]
Tag Archives: Eco-visualization
Ambient Display for Sustainability
"Show-me": water consumption at a glance to promote water conservation in the shower
K. Kappel and T. Grechenig, “”show-me”: water consumption at a glance to promote water conservation in the shower,” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Claremont, California: ACM, 2009, pp. 1-6.
This is a very interesting project which breaks the screen-based InfoVis. Also it’s a good example at the intersection of Casual InfoVis & [...]
Energy aware dwelling: a critical survey of interaction design for eco-visualizations
J. Pierce, W. Odom, and E. Blevis, “Energy aware dwelling: a critical survey of interaction design for eco-visualizations,” Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, Cairns, Australia: ACM, 2008, pp. 1-8.
This survey paper includes the definition of eco-visualization, characteristics, design strategies & categories. It is a decent summary [...]
Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption
T.G. Holmes, “Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,” Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity \& cognition, Washington, DC, USA: ACM, 2007, pp. 153-162.
Persuasion has been a one big issue in HCI community. Especially, sustainable design is the most highlighted so far. It deals with how technology and design motivate [...]