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Piccolo, Lara S. G.; De Liddo, Anna; Burel, Gregoire; Fernández, Miriam and Alani, Harith
(2018).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-017-0710-y
Abstract
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges humanity faces today. Despite of high investments in technology, battling climate change is futile without the participation of the public, and changing their perception and habits. Collective intelligence tools can play an important role in translating this “distant” concept that is climate change into practical hints for everyday life. In this paper, we report a case study grounded on collective intelligence tools to collaboratively build knowledge around energy conservation. A preliminary study to raise energy awareness in an academic environment is summarised, setting the scene to a more ambitious initiative based on personal stories to transform energy awareness into behaviour change. The role of the collective intelligence tools and other technical artefacts involved are discussed, suggesting strategies and features that contributed (or not) to users’ engagement and collective awareness. Lessons learned from both studies are reported with a sociotechnical approach as implications for design pursuing behaviour change.
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- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1435-5655
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change DecarboNet EU - Keywords
- energy awareness; collective intelligence; behaviour change; design; energy monitoring
- Academic Unit or School
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Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) > Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) - Research Group
- Centre for Research in Computing (CRC)
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- © 2017 The Authors
- Depositing User
- Harith Alani