Power Ballads: Deploying aversive energy feedback in social media

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2221-2226

  Foster, Derek ^a   Lawson, Shaun ^a   Linehan, Conor ^a   Ben, Kirman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aversive feedback; Energy saving; Motivation; Persuasive technology; Social networks; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

AVERSIVE FEEDBACKS; ENERGY SAVINGS; ENERGY FEEDBACKS; ENERGY-SAVINGS; FEED-BACK BASED; MEDIA APPLICATION; PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; POWER; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 79957948599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1979742.1979944     Document Type: Conference Paper

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