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R. Mugge

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Replacement decisions for consumer electronics involve trade-offs between product values, including emotional value (Van den Berge et al., 2021). Emotional value emerges when a product evokes positive emotions and affective states (Sheth et al., 1991). It can be acquired through ...

Walk a mile in someone's sweaty second-hand shoes

Differences in motivations and barriers for second-hand products

This study explores the motivations and barriers influencing consumer decisions to purchase second-hand products across three key categories: fashion (sweaters, jeans, and shoes), furniture (dinner tables, armchairs, and bookcases), and electronics (smartphones, microwaves, and w ...
Despite the ever-changing wishes and desires accompanying today’s rapid pace of technological innovation, basic psychological needs remain enduring sources for human functioning, development, and well-being. A shared language of needs, further with design-oriented measurement too ...
Consumers often replace electronic products prematurely due to performance issues (Van den Berge et al., 2021). Repair is a promising strategy to extend product lifetime by correcting faults to restore functionality (Pamminger et al., 2017) or realigning the product performance w ...

Introducing the Fundamental User Needs (FUN) Scales

Assessing Need Satisfaction and Frustration in Design-Mediated Interactions

This paper introduces the Fundamental User Needs (FUN) Scales, tailored to measure need satisfaction and frustration in design-mediated interactions. The development and initial validation process included a preparation phase and four studies. Adopting a deductive approach, we ge ...

How Many Times Should I Use My Reusable Packaging?

Exploring the Role of an Environmental Break-Even Point in Shaping Consumers’ Intention to Reuse

With growing awareness of packaging waste and pollution, reusable packaging systems (RPSs) appear to be a solution to mitigate the environmental impact of single-use packaging. Nevertheless, RPSs only become less environmentally harmful than single-use after each packaging is reu ...

Circular Economy as a relational challenge

The importance of „Relate“, “resonate” and “Responsibilise” as guiding orientations for systemic circular transitions

Laptops at work

The laptop user as a stakeholder in organizational ICT circularity

Laptops in the current economy most often fall short of their potential useful lifetimes, regularly being replaced before their true end-of-life. Increasing laptop lifetimes can play an important role in improving circularity for high-impact ICT equipment. We expand on existing l ...

Reducing without losing

Reduced consumption and its implications for well-being

Consumption is often considered important for achieving and maintaining well-being, particularly in current market societies. However, overconsumption is a significant driver of climate issues as it results in material scarcity and carbon emissions. Reduced consumption is one pos ...

Consumeren in een circulaire economie

Hoe kan de voortijdige vervanging van consumentenelektronica worden voorkomen?

Writer of one of the future vision essays on a Circular Economy, implemented in the Nationaal Programma Circulaire Economie 2023-2030 of the Ministery of Infrastructure and Watermanagement
Reusable packaging systems are emerging as a promising solution to combat the growing issue of packaging waste. While consumers generally recognise the environmental advantages of reuse, their actual reuse behaviours may result in insufficient reuse and an unintentional undermini ...

Developing reusable packaging for FMCG

Consumers’ perceptions of benefits and risks of refillable and returnable packaging systems

This research investigates consumers’ perception of two main types of reusable packaging systems: refillable and returnable packaging systems. An online experiment was conducted with Dutch consumers (n=250) in which attitudinal and behavioural responses to two reusable packaging ...
Refurbishment can extend the lifetime of an electronic product and reduce its environmental footprint. However, consumers often perceive refurbished electronics as less attractive than new ones, resulting in lower purchase intentions. While prior research has identified several f ...
Value preservation is key for the transition from a linear economy to a sufficiency-based circular economy. However, to keep the value of products and materials at the highest level possible over time, different actors such as businesses, designers, consumers, and policymakers mu ...
Circularity-conscious management of information and communications technology (ICT) owned by organizations is important to achieving a circular economy. However, changes in organizational management toward circularity has been met with multiple challenges. This study uses 11 semi ...

To see or not to see

The effect of observability of the recycled content on consumer adoption of products made from recycled materials

Despite their environmental benefits, products made from recycled materials are not readily adopted. Prior studies focused on improving consumer adoption via product attributes and marketing elements, but the impact of product appearance remains a gap in the literature. This rese ...

Sparking the Repair “Can-Do” Attitude

Enhancing Users’ Willingness to Repair through Design Support in Fault Diagnostics

Current production and consumption patterns of consumer electronics have a negative impact on our environment. Designers can contribute to changing these patterns with more sustainable product design. Prolonging product lifetimes can have a positive impact, for which repair is a ...
Long-lasting electronic products contribute to a sustainable society; however, both expected and actual lifetimes are in decline. This research provides in-depth insights into consumers’ considerations about product lifetimes, barriers to extending lifetimes, and responses to a p ...
Reusable packaging systems (RPSs) show promise in replacing single-use packages by extending the packaging lifetime and significantly reducing waste. Yet, knowledge about consumer behaviour in the adoption of RPSs is scarce. We present in-depth insights into how consumers perceiv ...