Raise Awareness of the Environmental Impacts of Retail Food Products: A User-Centered Scenario-Based Approach

TL;DR

This paper introduces a user-centered, scenario-based interface with gamification to raise consumer awareness of the environmental impacts of retail food products, aiming to promote climate-conscious shopping behaviors.

Contribution

It presents a novel user interface design that combines scenario-based and gamification strategies to enhance civic engagement and awareness of food-related environmental impacts.

Findings

Increased user awareness of food product environmental impacts.

Enhanced civic participation through gamified elements.

Potential to influence sustainable shopping behaviors.

Abstract

The climate is warming rapidly, and atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) are at their highest levels ever recorded. As a result of these climate changes, caused mainly by human activities, disasters have increased fivefold over the past 50 years, causing death and economic loss. Civic engagement and awareness are essential to mitigate climate change and its impacts. In this work, we proposed a user interface that makes users aware of the environmental impact of the food products they buy when shopping. A user-centered scenario-based design was followed in the development of the interface. Gamification elements were added to increase civic participation in climate action.