• DocumentCode
    1638844
  • 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
  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    397
  • Lastpage
    397
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • ISSN
    2167-2121
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-3099-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2167-2121
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/HRI.2013.6483615
  • Filename
    6483615
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1638844