A methodology for connecting User Centered Design (UCD) with Eco-design. The possibility of migration of products to services based on the user acceptance

Abstract

The consumer products generation is one of the main engines that fuel the planet’s environmental problems, reductionof environmental impacts associated with the products has been studied from various aspects between them, the supply of products for public consumption instead of private, seeking to meet the needs of the community by establishing programs for sharing single product. It has been detected a problematic issues linked to this strategy, where the user acceptance of this new way of living together with the products must be achieved. The arguments here presented seek to identify user perception of such proposals and their possible acceptance throughout strategies from the User Centered Design (UCD).