Understanding product hibernation periods with children’s products and exploring motivations and barriers for product care to encourage their reuse

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dc.contributor.authorChoi, Yoon Jungen
dc.contributor.authorKennedy, Brooken
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-21T14:57:54Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-21T14:57:54Zen
dc.date.issued2024-06-07en
dc.description.abstractProduct hibernation, where end-of-life products are kept but no longer used, poses a significant barrier to prolonging product lifespans within a circular economy. Obsolete products challenge users' decision-making process for the after-use phase and are often discarded despite being perfectly functional. This is especially common in households with growing children, where children's products are outgrown but not discarded. This paper presents the survey findings of 157 hibernating children's products, and interviews with five UK families, exploring reasons for product hibernation, and related reuse barriers. An idea generation workshop further explored the owners’ reuse experience with their children's products and identified fourteen factors that suggest opportunities to shift users' perception of end-of-life product value, care and reuse for these products, ultimately reducing product hibernation. This paper makes an original contribution to product reuse knowledge with the development of a framework for understanding reuse motivations and barriers through the lens of care.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107576en
dc.identifier.eissn1879-0658en
dc.identifier.issn0921-3449en
dc.identifier.orcidChoi, Yoon Jung [0000-0002-2910-6015]en
dc.identifier.orcidKennedy, Brook [0000-0002-1791-7822]en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/124273en
dc.identifier.volume205en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092134492400171Xen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectProduct hibernationen
dc.subjectChildren's productsen
dc.subjectProduct careen
dc.subjectReuseen
dc.subjectCircular economyen
dc.subjectDesign for adaptabilityen
dc.titleUnderstanding product hibernation periods with children’s products and exploring motivations and barriers for product care to encourage their reuseen
dc.title.serialResources, Conservation and Recyclingen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherArticleen
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-03-15en
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Techen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Architecture, Arts, and Designen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/All T&R Facultyen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Architecture, Arts, and Design/School of Designen

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