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Authors:
Alexander G. Mirnig
Stefan Eibl
Thomas Poscher
Lisa Diamond
Keywords: behavior change, sustainability, diversity, design patterns.
Abstract:
Design for Behavior Change can be used to enact changes on an individual basis or beyond to gradually modify users’ behaviors and constituting attitudes towards achieving a desired goal. Today, achieving more sustainable behaviors is a frequent goal of behavior change apps found on the market. In order to be effective across a wide and diverse spectrum of users and simultaneously avoid stigmatization or marginalization, the design of such applications should be done in a diversity-aware manner, which is often still lacking. In this paper, we present a best practice analysis of existing applications in the domains of food consumption, mobility, and energy consumption that are available on the market in Austria, Europe. We present the findings as a collection of three design patterns and discuss their status as patterns versus anti-patterns in terms of how well diversity factors are implemented in existing practice and where improvements are necessary.
Pages: 57 to 65
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: June 26, 2023
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3557
ISBN: 978-1-68558-049-0
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from June 26, 2023 to June 30, 2023