Emo-bin: How to recycle more by using emoticons

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHRI 2013 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Pages397
Number of pages1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Event8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2013 - Tokyo, Japan
Duration: Mar 3 2013Mar 6 2013

Publication series

NameACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
ISSN (Electronic)2167-2148

Other

Other8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityTokyo
Period3/3/133/6/13

Keywords

  • bin
  • emoticon
  • game
  • gamification
  • recycle
  • reward

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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