Growing Green Habits: Unobtrusive Gamified Eco-Feedback to Motivate Sustainable Behavior

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Beitragende

Abstract

Promoting environmental awareness and sustainable behavior is an important action for climate protection. In this paper, we introduce a gamified eco-feedback approach using an interactive plant-like physical interface to encourage lower heating energy consumption in households. The interface is designed to be a part of the user's environment and evoke a caretaker relationship. It measures indoor climate parameters via sensors, awards users with points for environmentally friendly and healthy heating and ventilation habits, and changes its shape to mimic growing and flourishing. Through their mobile device, the users can retrieve detailed information in a companion app. A prototype implementation demonstrates the feasibility of the concept and serves as a basis for further work in this emerging research area.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelMensch und Computer 2023
Redakteure/-innenMarkus Stolze, Frieder Loch, Matthias Baldauf, Florian Alt, Christina Schneegass, Thomas Kosch, Teresa Hirzle, Shadan Sadeghian, Fiona Draxler, Kenan Bektas, Katrin Lohan, Pascal Knierim
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association for Computing Machinery
Seiten454-459
Seitenumfang6
ISBN (elektronisch)979-8-4007-0771-1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 3 Sept. 2023
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheMundC: Mensch und Computer

(Fach-)Tagung

TitelMensch und Computer 2023
UntertitelBuilding Bridges
KurztitelMuC 2023
Dauer3 - 6 September 2023
Webseite
OrtOST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule
StadtRapperswil
LandSchweiz

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/159171488
ORCID /0000-0001-8667-0926/work/159171792
ORCID /0000-0003-1467-7031/work/159172196

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • ambient information, eco-feedback, gamification, plant-like interface, shape-changing interface