Designing a Local 'Climate App'
Jule Kistenfeger, Sven Schmidtke, Anke Dittmar · 2024
It is widely accepted that climate change requires dramatic behavioural changes.Persuasive technologies have the potential to encourage individuals to develop pro-environmental behaviour, but the design and use of climate persuasive applications is also discussed controversially.This paper describes and discusses selected activities from two user-centred design cycles for a 'climate app' for local use, each resulting in a prototype that was tested over two and four weeks respectively.Prototypes were also used as 'tools for discussion'.The paper argues that climate persuasive apps can be valuable means if they allow, and require, users to actively contribute to their evolution and help them place their individual actions into the broader context of collective action for sustainability.