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

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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

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMensch und Computer 2023
EditorsMarkus Stolze, Frieder Loch, Matthias Baldauf, Florian Alt, Christina Schneegass, Thomas Kosch, Teresa Hirzle, Shadan Sadeghian, Fiona Draxler, Kenan Bektas, Katrin Lohan, Pascal Knierim
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages454-459
Number of pages6
ISBN (electronic)979-8-4007-0771-1
Publication statusPublished - 3 Sept 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

Publication series

SeriesMundC: Mensch und Computer

Symposium

TitleHuman and Computer 2023
SubtitleBuilding Bridges
Abbreviated titleMuC 2023
Duration3 - 6 September 2023
Website
LocationOST Ostschweizer Fachhochschule
CityRapperswil
CountrySwitzerland

External IDs

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

Keywords

Keywords

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