Consuming technologies – developing routines |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, PR China;2. UCL Energy Institute, University College London, WC1H 0NN London, UK;1. Université de Montréal, Canada;2. CIREQ, Canada;3. Concordia University, Canada;1. EA European Academy of Technology and Innovation Assessment, GmbH, Wilhelmstr. 56, 53474 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany;2. Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA |
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| Abstract: | Routines in daily life are crucial for consumption of energy and water in households and therefore, knowledge of how routines develop and change is extremely relevant from a sustainable consumption perspective. Routines emerge, develop and change in close relation with different kinds of everyday technologies. In this article, these processes are investigated from three different perspectives: an historical perspective of how new technologies have entered homes, a consumer perspective of how both houses and new technologies are purchased and finally, as the primary part of the article, a user perspective of how routines develop while these technologies are being used. In the conclusion these insights are discussed in relation to possible ways of influencing routines. |
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