User Behavior and Technology Development

Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-90-481-7128-6
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 412 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 645 g

Reihe: Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science

Environmental policy has long been determined by a dichotomy between technology and behavior. This book explores the relationships between technology and behavior from an interdisciplinary perspective. It is the first volume that aims to create a conceptual basis for analyzing interactions between technology and behavior, and to provide insights that are relevant to technology design and environmental policy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Slob, Adriaan

Verbeek, Peter-Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Conceptual Frameworks for Analyzing Technology and Behavior.- Technology and user behavior.- Action facilitation and desired behavior.- Safety.- Technology and household activities.- Technology and behavior.- Acting artifacts.- Technology and behavior.- The social agency of technological artifacts.- Technology and users.- Technology, Behavior and Sociotechnical Practices.- Technology and behavior.- Sustainable technologies and everyday life.- Residential behavior in sustainable houses.- Making energy feedback work.- Technological innovations and the promotion of energy conservation.- Household energy consumption.- Marketing of technological products.- Diffusion of technological innovations.- Technological innovations and energy conservation.- Sustainable technology or sustainable users?.- Designing Technology-Behavior Interactions.- Planning behavior.- Expected behavior.- Designing ‘moralized’ products.- The scenario method to gain insight into user actions.- Using design orienting scenarios to analyze the interaction between technology, behavior and environment in the sushouse project.- Ict in everyday life.- User involvement in the development of sustainable product-service systems.- Eternally yours.- Designing technology-behavior interactions.- Implications for Policy.- Citizen-consumer roles in environmental management of large technological systems.- Modifying behavior by smart design.- Combining technical and behavioral change.- The practice of innovation.- Ethical aspects of behavior-steering technology.- A normative systems approach for managing technology and collective human action.- Shaping technology-behavior interactions.- Analyzing the relations between technologies and user behavior.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter-Paul Verbeek (1970) is associate professor of philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. He holds a M.Sc. in the Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society and a Ph.D. in the Philosophy of Technology. He publishes on the social and cultural roles of technology, the morality of technological artifacts, and the ethics and philosophy of (industrial) design.