User Behavior and Technology Development
Home > Business and Economics > Economics > User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies(20 Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)
User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies(20 Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)

User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies(20 Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)


     0     
5
4
3
2
1



Available


X
About the Book

Environmental policy has long been determined by a dichotomy between technology and behavior. Some approaches stress the importance of technology and technological innovation, while others focus on behavioral change. Each approach has its limitations, however, since technology and behavior often appear so closely intertwined. Human behavior results not only from intentions and deliberate decisions, but also from its interaction with technological artifacts. In the area of traffic safety, for instance, people’s driving behavior is determined as much by curves, speed bumps and the power of their motors as by considerations of safety and responsibility. How can we best describe and understand these interactions between behavior and technology? What conceptual frameworks and empirical studies are available, and how can they be integrated? And how can we bring these interactions to bear on product design and policy making? The book User Behavior and Technology Development explores these relationships between technology and behavior from an interdisciplinary perspective. This includes contributions from cognitive psychology, industrial design, public administration, marketing, sociology, ergonomics, science and technology studies, and philosophy. The book 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.

Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
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.


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781402044335
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
  • Height: 297 mm
  • No of Pages: 412
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies
  • ISBN-10: 140204433X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2006
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 20 Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science
  • Width: 210 mm


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies(20 Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. -
User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies(20 Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies(20 Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science)

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals


    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!