Augmented Reality for Corporate Sustainability Reporting: An Interactive Carbon Footprint System

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🔬研究者:Provides a novel application of AR to sustainability reporting; future work could scale and test with larger audiences.

🏢実務担当者:Corporations exploring interactive sustainability reports could consider AR for engaging stakeholders, though hardware limitations remain.

Corporate sustainability reports are often difficult for non-expert audiences to understand because they are typically presented as static, number-dense PDF documents. This paper presents an interactive Augmented Reality (AR) system that transforms Herc Rentals’ Corporate Citizenship Report data into spatially anchored 3D visualizations on a commodity Android smartphone. Developed using Unity and AR Foundation, the system detects the corporate logo and dynamically renders three scaled emission spheres representing Scope 1, Scope 2, and Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, totaling 358,841 MT CO2e in 2024. By tapping a sphere, users can access contextual panels that provide category-level breakdowns and carbon offset equivalencies derived from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) greenhouse gas equivalency factors. A preliminary user evaluation with six participants (N = 6), using the System Usability Scale (SUS) and NASA Task Load Index (NASA-TLX), produced a mean SUS score of 77.9, surpassing the target threshold of 75, along with generally low workload ratings across NASA-TLX dimensions. These findings suggest that AR-based sustainability visualization can improve comprehension, engagement, and environmental awareness in corporate reporting contexts.

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