The Complexity of Information for Sustainable Choices
Christian Remy, Elaine M. Huang · Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) · 2012
Changing one’s lifestyle to become more sustainable requires making informed decisions, which in turn creates a demand for specific information about these choices. As we discovered though a set of semi-structured in-depth interviews, acquiring this information is an unnecessarily complex and cumbersome task, especially in the context of purchasing goods that one considers to be sustainable. In this paper, we elaborate on two main obstacles to retrieving sustainability information that represent challenges for the HCI community and need to be addressed in order to achieve a simple, sustainable life: simplicity of and trust in information.