Seminar on Persuasive Services for Sustainability

Place: Sydöstra Galleria
Address: KTH Library building (KTHB), Osquars Backe 31
Time: February 25, 2009 10-16

The goal of this one-day seminar was to present research on novel practices and services that make the sustainability impact of our everyday consumption decisions regarding transportation, food and energy more graspable and engaging, and having a goal to persuade people towards more sustainable behavior.

Seminar program included presentations by KTH researchers, as well as invited guests from Sweden, Japan and Finland including the BeAware project on raising energy awareness and EcoIsland system on promoting climate-friendly lifestyles in households.

Program

Wednesday the 25th February 2009

10.00 Registration and coffee
10.15 Participants introduction

10.30 Prof. Marko Turpeinen (KTH / HIIT) Introduction to Centre for Sustainable Communications and Persuasive Services
11.00 Jorge L. Zapico (KTH) Climate persuasive services: framework and examples.
11.30 Keynote 1. Kaarina Hyvönen (National Consumer Research Center, Finland) Climate Bonus.

12.15 Lunch

13.00 David Kjelkerud (KTH) Lost in the supermarket: mobile software for sustainable food consumption.
13.15 Keynote 2. Prof. Tatsuo Nakajima (Waseda university, Tokyo) EcoIsland and virtual aquarium.
14.00 Prof. Ichiro Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo)
14.15 Prof. Marko Turpeinen (KTH / HIIT) BeAware

14.30 Group work

15.30 Summary and final discussion