Improving the return rate of a smart pillbox in a circular economy: From product redesign to comprehensive guidelines

This study explores nudging strategies to improve user abilities in order to promote the voluntary return of digital health products, with a focus on the smart pillbox. The two objectives were to create specific design recommendations for the smart pillbox and derive general design guidelines to support a circular lifecycle for future digital...

Quantifying the Endogenous Domain and Model Shifts Induced by the DiCE Generator

Algorithmic recourse aims to provide individuals affected by a negative classification outcome with actions which, if applied, would flip this outcome. Various approaches to the generation of recourse have been proposed in the literature; these are typically assessed on statistical measures such as the validity of generated explanations or their...

Disaggregating the costs and benefits of climate action: an assessment using DICE

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are greatly influential in global climate policy discussions and decision making. Mainstream IAMs suggest climate mitigation pathways which amount to making very little changes to emissions, consumption, and investment patterns in the short term. Instead, they rely on back-loading the mitigation efforts to...

When DICE meets the dice: Integrated Economic and Climate Assessment under Uncertainty

With the decision made to act upon climate change, the remaining question is: "How?". Economic theory suggests that the most efficient method is by means of market-based policies. These policies are often designed based on Integrated Assessment Models like DICE, which is the subject of this thesis. Integrating uncertainty into this model has...

Endogenous technological change, dynamic discounting and uncertainty in climate policy models