From awareness to empowerment: Using design fiction to explore paths towards a sustainable energy future

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1649-1658

  Prost, Sebastian ^a   Mattheiss, Elke ^a   Tscheligi, Manfred ^a,b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

activism; design fiction; empowerment; energy management; grounded theory; social practices; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DESIGN; ECODESIGN; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEEDBACK; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ACTIVISM; DESIGN FICTIONS; EMPOWERMENT; GROUNDED THEORY; SOCIAL PRACTICES;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84968902009     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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