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Reducing temporal tensions as a strategy to promote sustainable behaviours
journal contribution
posted on 2016-05-04, 16:03 authored by Luis C.R. Oliveira, Val MitchellVal Mitchell, Andrew MayAndrew MayThis research proposes that it is possible to deliberately reduce temporal tensions in order to promote energy saving behaviours. People may not dedicate enough time to planning their tasks that consume energy, rushing into them without much deliberation. They may also use more energy than necessary in an attempt to accelerate processes that seem to be taking too long, to reduce the boredom of waiting. Persuasive technology provided the tools to manipulate the perception of time and therefore elicit changes in the specific behaviours that result in unnecessary energy usage. Cooking tasks were used as the scenario to test behaviour change strategies delivered via a smartphone application. Results showed that these strategies facilitated the performance of sustainable behaviours. Participants reported that the app made (1) them more likely to follow the steps needed to use less energy, (2) the activity more enjoyable and (3) the time appear to pass more quickly compared to a control version.
Funding
The researchers would like to thank Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University,for funding this research.
History
School
- Design
Published in
Computers in Human BehaviorVolume
62Issue
SeptemberPages
303 - 315Citation
OLIVEIRA, L., MITCHELL, V. and MAY, A., 2016. Reducing temporal tensions as a strategy to promote sustainable behaviours. Computers in Human Behavior, 62, pp. 303 - 315.Publisher
© ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-04-01Publication date
2016Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Computers in Human Behavior and the definitive published version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.04.004ISSN
0747-5632Publisher version
Language
- en