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Publication date30/06/2022
Host publicationDIS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference: Digital Wellbeing
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages1669-1683
Number of pages15
ISBN (electronic)9781450393584
ISBN (print)145039358
<mark>Original language</mark>English

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NameDesigning Interactive Systems Conference
PublisherACM

Abstract

We are in the middle of a climate crisis. Never before has the impact of climate change been this visible, problematic, and timely. While most people have a basic awareness of the enormous potential impact of climate change, the reality is that only a few people have a detailed understanding of how their own (combined) personal activities − including food, transport, energy − impact the climate. In this pictorial, we explore the design process and principles of a data sculpture − Ecorbis − that is designed to help people reflect on how their day-to-day activities translate to climate impact. Ecorbis provides abstract and numerical weekly feedback on the overall environmental behavior of households and allows for in situ reflection and comparison. We conducted an initial 8-day field study with two families that highlighted that Ecorbis raised environmental awareness on climate impact and that the layered design of Ecorbis facilitated reflection.