Using Cultures of Participation to Change Behaviors

摘要

My doctoral research addresses two major systemic problems: energy sustainability and education, specifically how to engage learners as active contributors and decision makers rather than passive consumers. I design, develop, and evaluate socio-technical environments that facilitate cultures of participation in order to change human behavior towards energy sustainability. I analyze group interactions that influence and determine cultures of participation and I am conducting crowd-sourced user studies with the goal of creating theoretically-based and empirically-supported frameworks for the creation of socio-technical environments.