(How) Can Appliances be Designed to Support Less Energy-Intensive Use? Insights from a Field Study on Kitchen Appliances
Anneli Selvefors
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Anneli Selvefors is a researcher at Chalmers University of Technology in the Department of Industrial and Materials Science, Division Design & Human Factors. Her research explores design opportunities to enable and support people to live a more sustainable everyday life. In particular, she studies what implications the interplay between people and everyday designs may have from a sustainability point of view to identify how products and services can be designed to enable sustainable everyday activities and circular consumption patterns. Her Ph.D. thesis addressed how the design of artefacts influences people’s energy use and how everyday activities can be mediated in less energy-intensive ways. Selvefors has a Master’s degree in Industrial Design Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Human-Technology-Design from Chalmers University of Technology.
Christian Marx
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Sweden
Christian Marx is a researcher at Chalmers University of Technology in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. He studied Mechanical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) and Biosystems engineering (B.Sc.) at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, and combined both disciplines in his Ph.D. studies including laser and sensor technologies. Since 2015, Marx has been responsible for the Home Energy Management project (EIT, Climate-KIC, Building Technologies Accelerator). His interests are in sensor technologies and behaviour recognition for different kinds of socio-technical setups.
MariAnne I. C. Karlsson
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Sweden
MariAnne I.C. Karlsson is Professor in Human-Technology Systems in the Department of Industrial and Materials Science, Division Design & Human Factors. With a Ph.D. in Consumer Technology, her research, which is highly influenced by Activity Theory, concerns the multi-dimensional relation between people and technical artefacts, prerequisites for users’ adoption of new technical solutions and in what way the design of products and services can support and enable sustainable behaviours including households’ energy use and people’s transport behaviours.
Ulrike Rahe
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Sweden
Ulrike Rahe is Professor in Industrial Design at Chalmers University of Technology in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering. She was promoted to professor in Industrial Design at Chalmers in 2003. Since then, her life-time professorship (since 1994 at HAWK University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim, Germany) is non-active. Beside her academic engagement, Rahe has broad experience as a professionally active industrial designer.