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Investigating Persuasion in Sustainable Design to Change Behaviour and Attitude

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Sustainable design is critical to our life and is considered a future trend. On the basis of human-centered design method, we have utilized a persuasive design prototype as a research tool to investigate the potential users’ perspective on sustainable concept. With the findings we were able to understand the influential factors of sustainable design with respect to food-mileage concept. Furthermore, we foresee that these findings can be referenced for future design/research regarding attitudes and behaviour change.

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    1 Ambient information means that messages received in the arena are transmitted from matters in the surroundings.

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    2 Users are here today not just for randomly visiting, but for a certain activity.

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    3 It means the feeling of participation from others in the arena.

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    4 For example, how many people have bought this today?

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Wu, CH., You, HC., Deng, YS. (2010). Investigating Persuasion in Sustainable Design to Change Behaviour and Attitude. In: Pokojski, J., Fukuda, S., Salwiński, J. (eds) New World Situation: New Directions in Concurrent Engineering. Advanced Concurrent Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-024-3_17

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