Enhancing environmental friendliness of electrical consumer products: the effects of design-centered measures.

This paper is concered with the design of environmentally-friendly electrical appliances. There has been evidence from previous analyses that this product group makes a considerable contribution to the global environmental damage (see Wenzel, Hauschild & Alting, 1997). These analyses have revealed that electricity consumption during roduct utilisation is a primary contributor to a product's environmental impact score. While there is some support available for engineers and designers to reduce the environmantal impact of a product during production and disposal / recycling, there is little guidance for the utilisation phase (Sauer, Wiese, Rüttinger, in press). This is largely due to the high level of uncertainty and interindividual variability associated with user behaviour. Against this background, the work presendet here aims to provide designers with some guidance of how environmental-friendliness of appliances can be improved by optimising user-product interaction during the utilisation phase (e.g., reducing electricity consumption of appliance). unknown unknown

本研究聚焦于环保型家用电器的设计研发。过往已有分析研究表明，该类产品对全球环境破坏具有显著影响（参见Wenzel、Hauschild与Alting，1997）。上述分析显示，产品使用阶段的电力消耗是影响其环境影响评分的核心因素。尽管目前已有部分辅助手段可支持工程师与设计师在产品生产及废弃处置、回收利用阶段降低其环境影响，但针对使用阶段的相关指导却极为匮乏（Sauer、Wiese、Rüttinger，即出刊）。这一现状主要源于用户行为本身存在高度不确定性与显著的个体间差异。在此背景下，本项研究旨在为设计师提供相关指导，以通过优化使用阶段的用户与产品交互行为（例如降低家用电器的电力消耗），提升家电产品的环保性能。未知未知