Go ahead to Sustainable Interactive Systems

Simon Sigl; Mattis Willy Karg; Thorsten Licht; Jonas Herreiner; Olga Lange

doi:10.2991/978-94-6239-705-7_9

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Go ahead to Sustainable Interactive Systems

Practical Implementation and Evaluation the Elements of Green Coding and Resource-saving Design on an Existing Web Page

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Simon Sigl¹, Mattis Willy Karg², Thorsten Licht³, Jonas Herreiner⁴, Olga Lange⁵^{, *}

¹DHBW Heidenheim, Hans-Voith-Campus 1, 89520, Heidenheim, Germany

²DHBW Heidenheim, Hans-Voith-Campus 1, 89520, Heidenheim, Germany

³DHBW Heidenheim, Hans-Voith-Campus 1, 89520, Heidenheim, Germany

⁴DHBW Heidenheim, Hans-Voith-Campus 1, 89520, Heidenheim, Germany

⁵DHBW Heidenheim, Hans-Voith-Campus 1, 89520, Heidenheim, Germany

^*Corresponding author. Email: olga.lange@dhbw-heidenheim.de

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Olga Lange

Available Online 13 June 2026.

DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6239-705-7_9 How to use a DOI?
Keywords: Sustainable Interactive Systems; Resource-saving Design; Green Coding
Abstract: This publication introduced the practical elaboration to Sustainable Interactive Systems. Due to the constantly growing energy consumption of digital applications and their contribution to global CO₂ emissions, the sustainable design of web pages represents a major challenge and great possibilities.

Using an existing web page as an example, three elements of the sustainable design were implemented and evaluated - the database structure was adapted according to the principles of Green Coding (1), the use of media assets was optimized through picture format (2) and color selection was reprogrammed to dark mode for more efficient energy consumption of the display (3) according to Resource-saving Design. For example, through the optimization of picture format achieved a saving of over 99% of file size - from the existing size of 12.4 MB to improved size of 0,024 MB.

The evaluation of improved state of the web page is based on measurement parameters such as loading times, data volume, server utilization of Central Processing Unit (CPU) and Random-Access Memory (RAM), supported by tools such as Website Carbon Calculator, Beacon, Google PageSpeed Insights, etc.

Furthermore, this publication presents the challenge between the flexibility of modern web design and the requirements for development of Sustainable Interactive Systems. The introduced procedure can be successfully transferred and improve the other Interactive Systems to more Sustainability.
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Volume Title: Proceedings of the FIREtalk Conference - Research on FIRE! (research-on-fire 2025)
Series: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date: 13 June 2026
ISBN: 978-94-6239-705-7
ISSN: 2352-5398
DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6239-705-7_9 How to use a DOI?
Open Access: Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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