Hip to be square: designing serious apps for coolness

Derek Foster; Shaun Lawson; Conor Linehan; Ben Kirman

Hip to be square: designing serious apps for coolness

Derek Foster, Shaun Lawson, Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman

Theatre, Film, TV and Interactive Media

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Abstract

This paper discusses previous work in developing intervention apps for sustainability that are designed to be cool and improve user engagement. While much work has been carried out by the HCI community in sustainability, particularly energy consumption; little has been done to improve interaction with this relatively mundane but serious topic to engender a compelling and cooler experience. Using the theme of ?it?s cool to be uncool? for sustainability, we discuss the design of an eco-feedback Facebook application for deployment in a trial study. The Power Ballads Facebook app mashed mainstream ?pop? chart music with domestic energy data using aversive stimuli. Presented here are the pilot findings that suggest participants found the app cool.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2012 Cool aX Continents, Cultures and Communities Workshop
Publisher	ACM
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2012

Bibliographical note

This paper discusses previous work in developing intervention apps for sustainability that are designed to be cool and improve user engagement. While much work has been carried out by the HCI community in sustainability, particularly energy consumption; little has been done to improve interaction with this relatively mundane but serious topic to engender a compelling and cooler experience. Using the theme of ?it?s cool to be uncool? for sustainability, we discuss the design of an eco-feedback Facebook application for deployment in a trial study. The Power Ballads Facebook app mashed mainstream ?pop? chart music with domestic energy data using aversive stimuli. Presented here are the pilot findings that suggest participants found the app cool.

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