Title :
Emo-bin: How to recycle more by using emoticons
Author :
Berengueres, Jose ; Alsuwairi, F. ; Zaki, N. ; Ng, Timothy
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Technol., United Arab Emirates Univ., Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
Abstract :
In UAE only 10% of PET bottles are recycled. We introduce an emoticon-bin, a recycle bin that rewards users with smiles and sounds. When a user recycles the bin smiles. We show that by exploiting human responsiveness to emoticons, recycling rates increase by a factor of x3.
Keywords :
bottles; human computer interaction; plastic products; recycling; Emo-bin; PET bottles; UAE; emoticon-bin; human responsiveness; recycle bin; recycling rates; Abstracts; Buildings; Educational institutions; Information technology; Positron emission tomography; Recycling; Standards; bin; emoticon; game; gamification; recycle; reward;
Conference_Titel :
Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-3099-2
Electronic_ISBN :
2167-2121
DOI :
10.1109/HRI.2013.6483615
