Going Car-free: Investigating Mobility Practice Transformations and the Role of ICT

Dennis Lawo, Dennis Lawo, Lukas Böhm, Lukas Böhm, Anna-Katharina Flügge, Christina Pakusch, Christina Pakusch, Gunnar Stevens, Gunnar Stevens

2021

Abstract

With the debates on climate change and sustainability, a reduction of the share of cars in the modal split has become increasingly prevalent in both public and academic discourse. Besides some motivational approaches, there is a lack of ICT artifacts that successfully raise the ability of consumers to adopt sustainable mobility patterns. To further understand the requirements and the design of these artifacts within everyday mobility adopted a practice-lens. This lens is helpful to get a broader perspective on the use of ICT artifacts along consumers’ transformational journey towards sustainable mobility practices. Based on 12 retrospective interviews with car-free mobility consumers, we argue that artifacts should not be viewed as ’magic-bullet’ solutions but should accompany the complex transformation of practices in multifaceted ways. Moreover, we highlight in particular the difficulties of appropriating shared infrastructures and aligning own practices with them. This opens up a design space to provide more support for these kinds of material-interactions, to provide access to consumption infrastructures and make them usable, rather than leaving consumers alone with increased motivation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lawo D., Böhm L., Flügge A., Pakusch C. and Stevens G. (2021). Going Car-free: Investigating Mobility Practice Transformations and the Role of ICT. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA, ISBN 978-989-758-538-8, pages 36-47. DOI: 10.5220/0010652400003060

in Bibtex Style

@conference{chira21,
author={Dennis Lawo and Lukas Böhm and Anna-Katharina Flügge and Christina Pakusch and Gunnar Stevens},
title={Going Car-free: Investigating Mobility Practice Transformations and the Role of ICT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,},
year={2021},
pages={36-47},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010652400003060},
isbn={978-989-758-538-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: CHIRA,
TI - Going Car-free: Investigating Mobility Practice Transformations and the Role of ICT
SN - 978-989-758-538-8
AU - Lawo D.
AU - Böhm L.
AU - Flügge A.
AU - Pakusch C.
AU - Stevens G.
PY - 2021
SP - 36
EP - 47
DO - 10.5220/0010652400003060