Advancing sustainability: Using smartphones to study environmental behavior in a field-experimental setup

Data Science

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Viktoria Spaiser¹  Davide Luzzatti²  Aliki Gregoriou³ 

[1] School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds;Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds;School of Computing, University of Leeds

关键词: Field-experiment;    smartphone data;    environmental behavior;    social dilemma;    sustainability;    living laboratory;   

DOI  :  10.3233/DS-180014

来源: IOS Press

【 摘 要 】

Ecological sustainability is the defining challenge of our time. Here we suggest a methodological approach that could help to investigate how environmental behavior (transport behavior, energy consumption, food consumption, goods consumption, wasting) dilemmas can be overcome on an individual level in real life by using smartphones to collect daily behavioral data in a field-experimental setup. Previous related studies are reviewed and we discuss how the boundaries of what can be done with smartphones for data collection and experimental purposes can be pushed further to allow for complex behavioral studies. Results from a pilot study are presented to discuss the feasibility and potential of this approach. The pilot shows that studying social dilemma behavior via smartphones is feasible and has potential value as a behavioral intervention tool.

【 授权许可】

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