DESIGNING PRODUCT METAPHOR TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOUR: A PROPOSED METHOD

Designing ‘Sustainable’ Product/Service Systems

Ecodesign is examined critically starting from an expanded definition of sustainability. Traditional ecodesign objectives arise from the naturalistic dimension of sustainability, but often fail to account for absolute limits of the global ecosystem. A second, generally overlooked dimension is humanistic, directed at the underlying human drive to satisfy manifold domains of flourishing. Achievin...

Designing Mobile Technology to Promote Sustainable Food Choices

This paper is an experience report based on challenges encountered when designing scalable mobile persuasive HCI applications to help users make informed choices over their food consumption. We recently developed Tagliatelle, a social tagging system to help users to accurately monitor and assess their dietary behaviour and to promote healthier food choices. In this paper we propose a similar sy...

Designing Product Architecture: a Systematic Method

Designing a Green Auditor Proposed Content Model

In recent decades, the increasing trend of industrial development on the one hand and the limitation of natural and environmental resources on the other hand have attracted the attention of human society to the issue of environmental protection, as well as the growing demand of stakeholders for companies to accept social responsibilities. Encourages engaging in environmental and social responsi...

Sustainable Product Design: Designing for Diversity in Engineering Education*

Current and future engineers will need to address sustainability’s triple bottom line, simultaneously addressing financial, environmental, and social goals. There is also a need to improve diversity in engineering, both in the communities served by new technology and the representation of gender and ethnic minorities among engineering professionals. We present data gathered from ‘Engineering 10...