Forums

XIX.5 September + October 2012
Page: 14
Digital Citation

Sustainability does not begin with the individual


Authors:
Mike Hazas, A. Bernheim Brush, James Scott

In the past decade, an increasing amount of HCI research has been concerned with making personal and household environmental impacts (such as energy, water, or CO2 equivalents) more visible, with the aim of educating people and affecting their relevant actions. We have two concerns with this. First, when evaluated "in the wild," the scale of reduction achieved tends to be limited to less than 10 percent (of, say, household electricity or water) and is not proven to be long-lasting. This result is the same as for interventions trialed over the past four decades, many of which employed low-tech methods…




You must be a member of SIGCHI, a subscriber to ACM's Digital Library, or an interactions subscriber to read the full text of this article.

GET ACCESS

Join ACM SIGCHI

In addition to all of the professional benefits of being a SIGCHI member, members get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.


Subscribe to the ACM Digital Library

Get access to all interactions content online and the entire archive of ACM publications dating back to 1954. (Please check with your institution to see if it already has a subscription.)


Subscribe to interactions

Get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.