Title :
ECOISLAND: A System for Persuading Users to Reduce CO2 Emissions
Author :
Takayama, Chihiro ; Lehdonvirta, V. ; Shiraishi, Masashi ; Washio, Yasuyuki ; Kimura, Hiromitsu ; Nakajima, T.
Author_Institution :
Waseda Univ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
A significant portion of the carbon dioxide emissions that have been shown to cause global warming are due to household energy consumption and traffic. EcoIsland is a computer system aimed at persuading and assisting individual families in changing their lifestyle patterns in a way that reduces CO2 emissions. The system builds on our earlier work on persuasive ubiquitous computing applications and applies ideas from behaviorism, social psychology and emissions trading to attempt to motivate changes in users´ behavior. In this paper, we briefly describe the concept and the theories behind it, and provide preliminary results from a user study measuring its effectiveness.
Keywords :
air pollution; emission; energy consumption; global warming; psychology; ubiquitous computing; CO2; Ecolsland; carbon dioxide emissions; computer system; global warming; household energy consumption; persuasive ubiquitous computing; social psychology; Environment Sustainability; Persuasive Technology;
Conference_Titel :
Future Dependable Distributed Systems, 2009 Software Technologies for
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3572-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3572-2
DOI :
10.1109/STFSSD.2009.8
