Horizon CDT Year 1

地平线 CDT 第 1 年

• 批准号: 2889453
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2889453
• 关键词: Horizon; CDT; Year

Human activities continue to contribute towards rise in greenhouse gas emissions and cause climate change. People's lifestyles and consumption patterns are among the many activities that are causing rapid changes in the environment, affecting climate and weather across the globe (IPCC, 2023). This climate crisis sets the context for the current research and the aim of this work is to promote sustainable behaviour and contribute to providing a solution to this issue. Digital interventions, by offering novel ways of interaction, have a potential to support and accelerate a sustainable lifestyle (Wang & Yao, 2020), offering ways of combating the abovementioned challenge. An example of this type of interaction is the use of Gamification, or game design elements in non-game contexts, to target behaviours such as consumption, energy efficiency, and other lifestyle related activities that can be changed with a significant impact on climate change (Morganti et al., 2017). Proving as a useful line of research, Gamification is also a tool that is explored in this research.A natural area of application for this line of research emerges in the form of Environmental Citizen Science or crowdsourcing platforms, wherein a large body of volunteers undertake tasks to further the data collection or data annotation tasks of a project (Kreitmair & Magnus, 2019). Promoting change in this context is a complex issue and lacks theoretical consensus in literature, while theories of individual behaviour change exits, others argue that saving of the environment or sustainability is a collective goal and individuals in isolation are unlikely to perceive it as a threat, and so the focus should be on collective behaviour change (Fritsche et al., 2018). The theoretical direction of the current research is unclear at the moment, but the overall aim of environmental behaviour change is intact. Therefore, with the use of Gamification there is potential for environmental behaviour change to be brought about, with citizen science projects being an area of application. With this aim in mind, the following research questions emerge: Can Citizen Science participation (or crowdsourcing) lead to environmental behaviour change? How can Gamification be used to promote environmental behaviour change by citizen science (or crowdsourcing participation? This author is supported by the Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Nottingham (UKRI Grant No. EP/S023305/1).

人类活动继续导致温室气体排放增加并导致气候变化。人们的生活方式和消费模式是造成环境快速变化、影响全球气候和天气的众多活动之一（IPCC，2023）。这场气候危机为当前的研究奠定了背景，这项工作的目的是促进可持续行为并有助于为这一问题提供解决方案。数字干预通过提供新颖的互动方式，有可能支持和加速可持续的生活方式（Wang & Yao，2020），提供应对上述挑战的方法。这种类型互动的一个例子是在非游戏环境中使用游戏化或游戏设计元素来瞄准消费、能源效率和其他与生活方式相关的活动等行为，这些行为可能会对气候变化产生重大影响。 Morganti 等人，2017）。游戏化被证明是一种有用的研究方向，也是本研究中探索的一种工具。该研究领域的一个自然应用领域以环境公民科学或众包平台的形式出现，其中大量志愿者承担任务进一步完成项目的数据收集或数据注释任务（Kreitmair & Magnus，2019）。在这种背景下促进变革是一个复杂的问题，文献中缺乏理论共识，而个人行为改变的理论存在，其他人认为拯救环境或可持续性是一个集体目标，孤立的个人不太可能将其视为威胁，因此，重点应该放在集体行为改变上（Fritsche et al., 2018）。目前研究的理论方向尚不清楚，但环境行为改变的总体目标是完整的。因此，通过游戏化的使用，有可能带来环境行为的改变，公民科学项目就是一个应用领域。考虑到这一目标，出现了以下研究问题：公民科学参与（或众包）能否导致环境行为改变？如何利用游戏化通过公民科学（或众包参与）促进环境行为改变？作者得到了诺丁汉大学地平线博士培训中心的支持（UKRI 拨款号 EP/S023305/1）。