GoEco! – A Set of Smartphone Apps Supporting the Transition Towards Sustainable Mobility Patterns

Cellina, Francesca and Bucher, Dominik and Raubal, Martin and Rudel, Roman and De Luca, Vanessa and Botta, Massimo (2016) GoEco! – A Set of Smartphone Apps Supporting the Transition Towards Sustainable Mobility Patterns. In: Change-IT Technology-supported Sustainable Behaviour Change, 29.08.2016, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (In Press)

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Abstract

How can we encourage people to engage in more sustainable mobility lifestyles, reducing car use? Taking advantage of the wide availability of smartphones, we overcome the traditional awareness-raising approach and exploit eco-feedback, social norms and peer pressure elements in an ICT-based motivation system. We developed two smartphone Apps, which are currently being tested in a real-life, large-scale living lab experiment. The GoEco! Tracker App monitors the mobility patterns of the participants, identifying the routes they travel and the means of transport they use, and it is primarily meant to collect baseline data. Exploiting individual achievement and competition game mechanics, the full GoEco! App additionally nudges users towards personal goals for change and engages them in individual and collective challenges, strengthening competition with a “hall of fame” section. In this paper we introduce the GoEco! Apps and their theoretical eco-feedback and gamification framework, describe their key functionalities and comment on the main strengths and limitations after one month of large-scale testing of the GoEco! Tracker App.

Item Type:	Article in conference proceedings or Presentation at a conference (Paper)
Subjects:	Engineering > Civil engineering > Transport engineering Computer sciences > Computer science > Human-computer interaction Social studies
Department/unit:	Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design > Istituto sostenibilità applicata all'ambiente costruito Dipartimento ambiente costruzioni e design > Istituto design
Depositing User:	Francesca Cellina
Date Deposited:	15 Sep 2016 14:05
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2021 17:00
URI:	http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/7717

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