Social networking sites as platforms to persuade behaviour change in domestic energy consumption

Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems - Proceedings of the 23rd Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, AISB 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 22-27

  Foster, Derek ^a   Blythe, Mark ^a   Lawson, Shaun ^b   Doughty, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; CONCEPT-BASED; DOMESTIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ELECTRICITY USAGE; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; ENERGY USAGE; FACEBOOK; FACEBOOK APPLICATIONS; GROUNDED THEORY; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VISUALIZATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84859076211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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