Graduate Student, Brunel Design
Thesis Title: Design for Sustainable Behaviour
About
I’m an industrial designer, engineer and researcher interested in human behaviour, environmentally sensitive design and engineering, the psychology of interaction with products / services / systems / environments, architecture and control, the relationship between technology and society, transportation (in many forms), mobility, digital rights, and widening the public’s practical understanding of technology.
Overall, this is about design for independence: reducing society’s resource dependence, reducing vulnerable users’ dependence on other people, and reducing users’ dependence on ‘experts’ to understand and modify the technology they own.
Most recently, I’ve specialised in the growing field of Design for Behaviour Change, applying techniques from a range of psychological and technical disciplines to the problems of influencing human behaviour for social benefit, via the design of products, systems, services and environments. In particular, my ‘Design with Intent’ toolkit is being tested through application to environmental problems, where influencing consumer use and interaction behaviour can have a significant effect on resource use and waste, but the intention is that the work is applicable to behaviour change in general. This research is being undertaken at Brunel University, as part of the Cleaner Electronics Research Group, and has been supported by a blog, Design with Intent (formerly Architectures of Control in Design), since 2005, which has (as of 2009) approximately 1,200 subscribers via RSS.
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