Computerized support of personal and group skills for sustainability
2012 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In this paper we present a collaborative tool to facilitate and structure dialogue about concrete issues in sustainability, We have experienced that the tool is remarkably powerful in stimulating the inquiry in complex issues by constantly forcing the user to shift focus between the particular and the holistic. The design of the tool is theoretically founded in philosophy and knowledge about the psychological mechanisms, like cognitive biases, that are involved in decision making. It is based on the assumption that people are not making judgments in isolation, but rather in social settings. Problems that involve many people, a trait that questions of sustainability share with ethics, can only be solved by answering questions about how these are affecting the problem situation and how these are affected by any proposed solution. The main advantage with such a tool is that it supplies a shared platform in which an analysis can evolve organically, even in collaboration with competing parties. Policy makers can get help to understand how arguments have been applied in concrete situations and how people and values can be affected by different courses of action. The structure of the tool invites to a proactive, concrete, solution-oriented dialogue where premises are made explicit and thus possible to address.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012.
Keywords [en]
communication, decision-making, distance, education, environment, ethics, information technology, moral philosophy, psychology, sustainability, training, usability
National Category
Human Aspects of ICT Human Computer Interaction
Research subject
Human-Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-179151OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-179151DiVA, id: diva2:543551
Conference
International Conference on new technologies, education for sustainable development and critical pedagogy
Projects
ICTeESDETHCOMP2012-08-082012-08-082018-01-12