We are not in the loop: Resource wastage and conservation attitude of employees in indian workplace

UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 687-696

  Jain, Mohit ^a   Agrawal, Ankit ^a   Ghai, Sunil K ^a   Truong, Khai N ^b   Seetharam, Deva P ^a  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservation; Developing world; Energy; Fuel; India; Office; Sustainability; Trees; Wastage; Water; Workplace

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ENERGY; INDIA; OFFICE; TREES; WASTAGE; WORKPLACE;

CONSERVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FUELING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WATER; WATER CONSERVATION;

HISTORIC PRESERVATION;

EID: 84885207329     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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