The use of Digital Technology to Evaluate School Pupils' Grasp of Energy Sustainability

Christopher Weeks; Charles  Delalonde; Chris Preist

doi:10.1145/2851581.2892287

The use of Digital Technology to Evaluate School Pupils' Grasp of Energy Sustainability

Christopher Weeks, Charles Delalonde, Chris Preist

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This paper discusses the implementation of a smartphone application designed to help develop school pupils' knowledge in relation to a number of energy sustainability questions. This was then used as a method for collecting both quantitative and qualitative data from teachers to help us better understand the school pupils' levels of knowledge, engagement and awareness of energy sustainability. The paper then takes a critical review of the application and shows that it succeeded in spreading the expert knowledge of EDF Energy's staff members, but failed to generate new habitual sustainable behaviours in the school pupils.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI
Subtitle of host publication	Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1308-1314
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Print)	9781450340823
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892287
Publication status	Published - 12 May 2016

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The use of Digital Technology to Evaluate School Pupils' Grasp of Energy Sustainability. / Weeks, Christopher; Delalonde, Charles ; Preist, Chris.
CHI EA '16 Proceedings of the 2016 CHI : Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2016. p. 1308-1314.

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