Mr. Dan Lockton
Contact details:
Daniel.Lockton@brunel.ac.uk
+44 (0) 1895 274000
Brunel University 
School of Engineering and Design
Cleaner Electronics Research Group
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom

http://danlockton.co.uk  |  http://brunel.ac.uk/~dtpgdjl

Design for Sustainable Behaviour

Supervisors: Professor David Harrison (Brunel University)
Professor Neville Stanton (University of Southampton)

Dan’s research centres on investigating techniques for using design to influence users’ interactions with products and systems, so that they are used in a more environmentally friendly manner (reducing energy use, reducing waste generation, and so on).

The aims include: developing a method for selecting techniques, useful to environmentally sensitive product designers, interaction designers and engineers working on future products and systems; and testing practical implementations of some of these techniques, in consumer electronic products, to determine their effectiveness at achieving the target behaviour.

Funded by an Ormsby Trust studentship, this work builds on Dan’s ongoing personal research into ‘Design with Intent’ (http://danlockton.co.uk) – how users’ behaviour is influenced by the design of products, systems and environments, and a general interest in ‘design for independence’: reducing society’s resource dependence, reducing vulnerable users’ dependence on others, and reducing users’ dependence on ‘experts’ to understand their technology.

Dan studied Industrial Design Engineering at Brunel University, Runnymede, from 2000-4, and then a Cambridge-MIT Institute Master’s in Technology Policy at the University of Cambridge from 2004-5, before returning to Brunel in 2007. As a freelance designer / engineer / researcher, clients have included Sinclair Research (lightweight transport R & D, including some work on the ultra-light ‘A-Bike’ and in the mobility field), London design consultancy Tangerine (product and branding research) and gadget retailer Mayhem (new product prototyping) as well as a number of individual entrepreneurs. He has also written on automotive history and other design and innovation issues, and has recently become a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).


 

Journal and magazine articles 

Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. ‘Making the user more efficient: Design for sustainable behaviour’. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering Vol.1 No. 1, pp. 3-8, March 2008, http://hdl.handle.net/2438/2137 (preprint version)

Further journal articles on design for sustainable behaviour are submitted and in preparation

Lockton, D. ‘Design for sustainable behaviour: influencing users to improve efficiency of product use’ (’My PhD’ series). Interfaces 78, British Computer Society Interaction Group, Spring 2009, http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/files/usermedia/file/interfaces_69on/interfaces78.pdf

Lockton, D. ‘J.G. Ballard and Architectures of Control’. Lead story for Ballardian.com, January 2008, http://www.ballardian.com/jg-ballard-architectures-of-control

Lockton, D. ‘Architectures of Control in product design’. Engineering Designer, March/April 2006, http://www.danlockton.co.uk/research/28-31-ED.pdf

Plus a major series of articles for InventorResource.co.uk

Books, chapters, posters, etc 

Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. Design for Behaviour Change: The Design with Intent Toolkit v.0.9, Uxbridge: Brunel University Press 2009 (ISBN 978-1-902316-6-1 print; 978-1-902316-63-5 eBook), http://hdl.handle.net/2438/3258 or see http://designwithintent.co.uk for online version

Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Holley, T., Stanton, N.A. ‘Influencing Interaction: Development of the Design with Intent Method’ in Persuasive 2009, Proceedings, New York: ACM Press 2009, (ISBN 978-1-60558-376-1) http://hdl.handle.net/2438/3257 (preprint version)

Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. ‘Design for Behaviour Change’ in TBA (Eds.): Behavior Modification: Uses, Techniques and Effectiveness, Hauppauge: Nova Science Publishers 2009 (forthcoming)

Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. ‘Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a wider context’ in H. Oinas-Kukkonen et al. (Eds.): Persuasive 2008, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5033, pp. 274-278, Berlin: Springer 2008, (ISBN 978-3-540-68500-5) http://hdl.handle.net/2438/2138 (preprint version)

Weightman, C., Lockton, D., Hanson, J.E. et al (Eds.). Good Thinking: Brunel Design 04, Runnymede: Brunel University Press 2004 (ISBN 1-902316-41-X)

Lockton, D. Rebel Without Applause: The Reliant Company from Inception to Zenith, Minster Lovell: Bookmarque 2003 (ISBN 1-870519-64-7)

Conference, seminar and corporate presentations 

Talk@12 presentation 'Design with Intent: Using design to influence user behaviour' for Ufi/Learndirect, Sheffield, June 2009 (invited)

Architectures of Control Symposium, presentation 'Design with Intent', Loughborough University, May 2009 (invited)

Skillwap Goes Behavioural, presentation 'Design with Intent: How Designers Can Influence Behaviour', Lighthouse, Brighton, May 2009 (invited). Slides + podcast available at http://www.slideshare.net/DanLockton

Persuasive 2009: The Fourth International Conference on Persuasive Technology. Claremont, California, April 2009. Presentation: ‘Influencing Interaction: Development of the Design with Intent Method’. Narrated slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/DanLockton

Design | Behaviour: Making It Happen. engCETL, Loughborough University, October 2008. Presentation (invited): ‘Design for Sustainable Behaviour: Easier Efficiency by Influencing Interaction’. Video available at http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~cddl/design-behaviour_making_it_happen_workshop.htm

Human Centred Design Institute seminar series, Brunel University, October 2008. Presentation: ‘Design with Intent: How designers can influence interaction and help users help themselves’ (invited)

New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living. Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, July 2008. Presentation: ‘Design with Intent: behaviour-shaping through design’ (invited)

ReSCon 2008: Engineering & Design Student Conference. Brunel University, June 2008. Poster: ‘Design for Sustainable Behaviour’. Poster available at http://research.danlockton.co.uk/ResCon_poster_DL.ai.pdf

Persuasive 2008: The Third International Conference on Persuasive Technology. Oulu, Finland, June 2008. Presentation: ‘Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a wider context’. Narrated slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/DanLockton

Patent application

‘Backup light for standard lamp fitting’. Filed 14 June 2006, publication number GB2435319

 

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