Sustainably unpersuaded: How persuasion narrows our vision of sustainability

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 947-956

  Brynjarsdóttir, Hrönn ^a   Håkansson, Maria ^a   Pierce, James ^b   Baumer, Eric P S ^a   DiSalvo, Carl ^c   Sengers, Phoebe ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical reflection; Modernism; Persuasive sustainability; Reflective HCI; Sustainable HCI

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; CRITICAL ANALYSIS; CRITICAL REFLECTIONS; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; MODERNISM; SIMPLE METRICS; SOCIOLOGICAL THEORIES;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862082582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208539     Document Type: Conference Paper

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