About the Authors

Shane Clark

Affiliation Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Adam Joseph Lewis Center, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America

John E. Petersen

john.petersen@oberlin.edu

Affiliation Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College, Adam Joseph Lewis Center, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America

Cindy M. Frantz

Affiliation Psychology Department, Oberlin College, Severance Laboratory, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America

Deborah Roose

Affiliation Education, Oberlin College, AJLC Annex, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America

Joel Ginn

Affiliation Psychology Department, Oberlin College, Severance Laboratory, Oberlin, Ohio, United States of America

Daniel Rosenberg Daneri

Affiliation Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, Fernow Hall, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

John Petersen was a founding partner and currently serves on as a board member of the company "Lucid™" (www.luciddesigngroup.com) which functioned as a partner and contractor on the Great Lakes Protection Fund grant that supported this project. The graphical interfaces "Building Dashboard®" and "Citywide Dashboard" used in the experiment were developed in association with Lucid. Dr. Petersen does not receive payment or royalties for his participation in research on the efficacy of the technology. His relationship with Lucid does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SC JEP CMF DR DRD. Data curation: SC CMF JG. Formal analysis: SC JEP CMF JG DRD. Funding acquisition: JEP CMF. Investigation: SC JEP CMF DR DRD. Methodology: SC JEP CMF DR JG DRD. Project administration: SC JEP CMF DRD. Supervision: SC JEP CMF DRD. Writing – original draft: SC JEP. Writing – review & editing: SC JEP CMF DR JG DRD.