Smartphone repairability indexes in practice: Linking repair scores to industrial design features.
Policymaking mediates the relationships between manufacturers and consumers, thus defining the boundaries for the philosophies of production set forth by major companies. Research states that policymaking falls short in addressing the waste issues, natural resources consumption, greenhouse gas emiss...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Industrial Ecology Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 923 - 937 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=164372767&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 164372767 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10881980 FL1 jtl: Journal of Industrial Ecology issn: 10881980 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2023 vid: 27 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 164372767 10.1111/jiec.13398 ppf: 923 ppct: 14 formats: tig: atl: Smartphone repairability indexes in practice: Linking repair scores to industrial design features. aug: au: Barros, Mário Dimla, Eric affil: Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire Egypt hosted by Global Academic Foundation, New Administrative Capital, Egypt School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK su: France Consumer behavior Communities Industrial design Greenhouse gases Smartphones Point-of-sale systems Repairing sug: subj: Consumer behavior Communities France Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing Computer Terminal and Other Computer Peripheral Equipment Manufacturing Industrial design Greenhouse gases Smartphones Point-of-sale systems Repairing keyword: circular economy Index of Repairability industrial ecology policy analysis product design smartphones circular economy Index of Repairability industrial ecology policy analysis product design smartphones ab: Policymaking mediates the relationships between manufacturers and consumers, thus defining the boundaries for the philosophies of production set forth by major companies. Research states that policymaking falls short in addressing the waste issues, natural resources consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and other negative impacts posed by premature obsolescence; only recently have the "right‐to‐repair" guidelines demanded by environmental organizations and communities of citizens been included in policymaking. The introduction of the Index of Repairability in France as information at the point of sale aims to inform consumers and support their decision‐making in purchasing more repairable products. In this paper, we consider the two Indexes of Repairability publicly available to consumers—in the French legislation and iFixit—and assess their application to smartphones from three manufacturers. The study establishes links between the scores and the industrial design features that promote or hinder repairability, service factors and information for self‐repair, authorized repair, and independent repair. Data collection considers the available information for consumers and citizens by using netnography and secondary data from manufacturers, policymakers, and communities of users. Our findings suggest that higher scores that indicate easier repairability are not limited to product architectures that follow design for disassembly guidelines. Smartphones that are difficult to repair can still score high, and thus be perceived as easier to repair, if manufacturers provide high quality and affordable service. This paper discusses the results of the ongoing development of repairability scores for smartphones, thus suggesting paths for future research to improve methods and policies to support a longer lifetime of products. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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