Energy objects: Reflection through interaction
Mattias Ludvigsson · Nordic design research conference · 2005
Energy consumption and personal objects both play important roles in young people’s everyday life and influence their behaviour in many different ways, although often unconsciously. This article investigates how interaction design and speculative re-design of personal objects can be used as a means for raising young people’s awareness of energy consumption. The concept of energy objects acts to make energy visible and tangible in order to stimulate reflection and reaction through the interaction with a collection of conceptual design proposals. Initial user feedback indicates that the presented collection of re-designed objects can be seen as an adequate tool in order to achieve reflection through interaction.