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Unsustainable energy consumption is a systemic problem facing society that requires technical and social innovations and changes. We argue for understanding and using end-user developments as not just another design principle but as a socio-technical intervention to help people make better decisions as they work to solve such systemic problems. We further explore two established EUD frameworks, Meta-Design and Cultures of Participation, to design systems for one such systemic problem: the energy domain. We present the draft for a system that incorporates principles from these frameworks to inform, motivate, and involve end-users in reducing their energy consumption.
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Dick, H., Eden, H., Fischer, G. (2011). From Consumers to Owners: Using Meta-design Environments to Motivate Changes in Energy Consumption. In: Costabile, M.F., Dittrich, Y., Fischer, G., Piccinno, A. (eds) End-User Development. IS-EUD 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6654. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21530-8_33
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