Grow Your Plant: A Plant-Based Game For Creating Awareness About Sustainability Behaviour by Using Renewable Energy

CHISALITA, Raluca, Markus MURTINGER and Simone KRIGLSTEIN. Grow Your Plant: A Plant-Based Game For Creating Awareness About Sustainability Behaviour by Using Renewable Energy. In CHI PLAY '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Bremen, Germany: ACM, 2022, p. 177-182. ISBN 978-1-4503-9211-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3505270.3558344.

Basic information

• Original name: Grow Your Plant: A Plant-Based Game For Creating Awareness About Sustainability Behaviour by Using Renewable Energy
• Authors: CHISALITA, Raluca, Markus MURTINGER and Simone KRIGLSTEIN (40 Austria, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Bremen, Germany, CHI PLAY '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, p. 177-182, 6 pp. 2022.
• Publisher: ACM

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Proceedings paper
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: United States of America
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• Publication form: printed version "print"
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/22:00127297
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-9211-2
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3505270.3558344
• Keywords in English: Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Wearable; Mobile Game; Solar Panel
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Environmental sustainability has become more and more a very important topic that will also change our way of life in the near future. A question is how people can be influenced into becoming more aware of environmental sustainability. Since technology is considered a means to simplify people’s lives, it can also be used as a tool to support people’s awareness of these aspects. This paper investigates how we can use a mobile phone in combination with a solar panel as a wearable in a playful way to support people’s awareness of plant-based environments. For this purpose, the first version of a mobile game was developed with the goal that the players can not only learn what a plant needs to grow healthy but also learn about the sun as a renewable energy source.