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Patterns of persuasion for sustainability

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Published
Publication date21/06/2014
Host publicationDIS '14 Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages1035-1044
Number of pages10
ISBN (electronic)9781450329026
<mark>Original language</mark>English
EventACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2014 - British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Duration: 21/06/201425/06/2014

Conference

ConferenceACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2014
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period21/06/1425/06/14

Conference

ConferenceACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems in 2014
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period21/06/1425/06/14

Abstract

Research into the values motivating unsustainable behavior has generated unique insight into how NGOs and environmental campaigns contribute toward successfully fostering significant and long-term behavior change, yet thus far this research has not been applied to the domain of sustainable HCI. We explore the implications of this research as it relates to the potential limitations of current approaches to persuasive technology, and what it means for designing higher impact interventions. As a means of communicating these implications to be readily understandable and implementable, we develop a set of antipatterns to describe persuasive technology approaches that values research suggests are unlikely to yield significant sustainability wins, and a complementary set of patterns to describe new guidelines for what may become persuasive technology best practice.