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Type Conference or Workshop Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Published in Proceedings Yes
Title VETUS – Visual Exploration of Time Use Data to Support Environmental Assessment of Lifestyles
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Jan Bieser
  • David Haas
  • Lorenz Hilty
Presentation Type paper
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
ISSN 1613-0073
Event Title 6th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability
Event Type conference
Event Location Lappeenranta
Event Start Date June 10 - 2019
Event End Date June 14 - 2019
Series Name CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Number 2382
Publisher CEUR-WS
Abstract Text The time-use (or activity) patterns individuals perform on a typical day – their individual lifestyles – fundamentally shape our society and the environment we live in. Not only are lifestyles evolving over time, driven by societal and technological change, they also significantly contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 12 “responsible consumption and production”, namely through the resource use and emissions associated with goods and services consumed to perform activities. We created an interactive, browser-based tool to visualize and intuitively explore statistical time-use data. The visualization helps to gain an overview about the available data, identify and compare common time-use patterns and draw up hypotheses about the relationship between changes in lifestyles and their social and environmental consequences. We use the tool to compare time-use data from different regions, time periods as well as socio-economic and demographic backgrounds and estimate the associated energy consumption. From a time-use perspective, any technological change which triggers changes in time allocation can only be environmentally sustainable if the environmental impact of the total of the activities performed after the change is lower than before.
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Official URL http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2382/
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