Tawanna Dillahunt

   Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University | tdillahu [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu

 

 

My research interests lie in using social computing to motivate and encourage positive behaviors and ubiquitous computing.  Currently, I am researching how to motivate environmentally sustainable behaviors via social websites; my plans are to explore environmentally sustainable behaviors across ethnic and socioeconomic groups.

Below is a list of  my current and previous projects as well as publications.

The Footprints project leverages social networking to reduce individuals’ ecological footprints.  StepGreen is a social website that allows individuals to commit to environmental sustainable behaviors and report when they made their commitments.

Work with Min Kyung Lee and Bryan Pendleton at Carnegie Mellon University.  The goal was to understand design implications for free online marketplace to elicit participation of people with altruistic, financial, and environmental motivations.

Lee, M.K., Dillahunt, T., Pendleton, B., Kraut, B., Kiesler, S. (2009). Tailoring Websites to Increase Contributions to Online Communities.  In Proceeding of the twenty-seventh annual SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems.

Work with Geof Becker at Carnegie Mellon University on a study for Social Web (HCI-05820) to determine if there is a correlation between emotional attachment and sustainable behavior. 

Dillahunt, T., Becker, G., Mankoff, J. and Kraut, R. (2008). Motivating environmentally sustainable behavior changes with a virtual polar bear.  Pervasive’08 Workshop on Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Footprints | StepGreen (ongoing)

What Motivates People to Reuse:  Implications for a Free Online Marketplace (Fall 2007) | paper

Motivating Sustainable Behavior Changes with a Virtual Polar Bear (Fall 2007) | paper

Research
Text Box: Last updated April 2009 Tawanna Dillahunt

Collaborated with the University of Washington and Intel to explore the use of personal ambient displays on mobile phones to give users feedback about sensed and self-reported transportation behaviors.

J. Froehlich, T. Dillahunt,.P. Klasnja, J. Mankoff, S. Consolvo, B. Harrison, J. A. Landay, Ubigreen: Investigating a Mobile Tool for Tracking and Supporting Green Transportation Habits.  In Proceedings of CHI 2009.

UbiGreen | paper | presentation