A pro-environmental attitude in the general population is essential to combat climate change. Society as a whole has the power to change economic processes through market demands and to exert pressure on policymakers - both are key social factors that currently undermine the goals of decarbonization. Creating long-lasting, sustainable attitudes is challenging and behavior change technologies do hard to overcome their limitations. Environmental psychology proposes social factors to be relevant, a.o. creating a global identity feeling and widening one's view beyond the own bubble. From our experience in the field of mobile sensing and psychometric data inferences, we see strong potential in mobile sensing technologies to implement the aforementioned goals. We present concrete ideas in this paper, aiming to refine and extend them with the workshop and evaluate them afterward.
翻译:公众形成亲环境态度对于应对气候变化至关重要。全社会有能力通过市场需求改变经济进程,并对政策制定者施加压力——这两者目前都是削弱脱碳目标的关键社会因素。培养长期可持续的态度具有挑战性,行为改变技术难以克服其局限性。环境心理学提出社会因素具有相关性,例如培养全球认同感以及拓宽个人视野超越自身局限。基于我们在移动感知和心理测量数据推断领域的经验,我们认为移动感知技术在实现上述目标方面具有巨大潜力。本文提出了具体构想,旨在通过研讨会进一步完善和扩展这些构想,并在之后进行评估。