Sustainability and Home Automation: The Case of Repairing or Replacing Vacuum Cleaners

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Abstract

Household practices are a microcosm that shows how we think about
sustainability on an everyday basis. This study focuses on vacuuming, which is
a household chore with similarities to routine activities at work. The 24 participants in the study merely considered sustainability a minor aspect in their decisions about which vacuum cleaner to buy. Brand, price, and suction power were top considerations. With respect to repair/replace decisions, participants tended to favor repair, that is, the more sustainable option. However, decisions to repair a vacuum cleaner that broke down were often on the condition that it could be done cheaply. In contrast, decisions to replace were never conditional. Finally, participants exhibited cross-country differences in the importance they attached to sustainability. These differences suggest that national discourses have the power to influence individual householders’ views on sustainability.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelDesign for Equality and Justice : INTERACT 2023 IFIP TC 13 Workshops, York, UK, August 28 – September 1, 2023, Revised Selected Papers, Part I
RedaktørerAnna Bramwell-Dicks, Abigail Evans, Helen Petrie, Marco Winckler, José Abdelnour-Nocera
Antal sider8
Vol/bind1
UdgivelsesstedCham
ForlagSpringer
Publikationsdato2024
Sider340-347
ISBN (Trykt)978-3-031-61687-7
ISBN (Elektronisk)978-3-031-61688-4
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2024
Begivenhed19th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Design for Equality and Justice - University of York, York, Storbritannien
Varighed: 28 aug. 20231 sep. 2023
Konferencens nummer: 19
https://interact2023.org/

Konference

Konference19th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Nummer19
LokationUniversity of York
Land/OmrådeStorbritannien
ByYork
Periode28/08/202301/09/2023
Internetadresse
NavnLecture Notes in Computer Science
Nummer14535
ISSN0302-9743

Emneord

  • Sustainability
  • home automation
  • repair
  • replace
  • vacuum cleaner

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