@inproceedings{d3eecc113cfd45c7ab4515d8bf6cc841,
title = "From awareness to empowerment: Using design fiction to explore paths towards a sustainable energy future",
abstract = "This paper presents a novel application of participatory design fiction for sustainable domestic energy consumption. In our study we examine how social practices relate to a newly developed energy management system introduced to households. We explore how design fiction can be used to identify current design limitations and to showcase future design directions to overcome these limitations. In particular, we investigated how energy consumption feedback is leaving users in a state of 'helplessness' despite raising awareness of their environmental impact. Through participatory fictional future story-writing workshops we identified five levels of empowerment that design for sustainability practitioners can engage with. Our proposal is to use those levels of empowerment to reframe sustainable design by shifting from behaviour to social practices and from awareness to empowerment.",
keywords = "activism, design fiction, empowerment, energy management, grounded theory, social practices, Sustainability",
author = "Sebastian Prost and Elke Mattheiss and Manfred Tscheligi",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 ACM.; 18th ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 ; Conference date: 14-03-2015 Through 18-03-2015",
year = "2015",
month = feb,
day = "28",
doi = "10.1145/2675133.2675281",
language = "English",
series = "CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
publisher = "ACM",
pages = "1649--1658",
booktitle = "CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing",
address = "United States",
}
