The power of negative feedback from an artificial agent to promote energy saving behavior

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8520 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2014, Pages 328-338

  Midden, Cees ^a   Ham, Jaap ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

artificial social agents; Persuasive technology; social evaluation; sustainability

Indexed keywords

SOFTWARE TESTING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASHERS; WASHING MACHINES;

ARTIFICIAL AGENTS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; PERSUASIVE TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL AGENTS; SOCIAL EVALUATION;

FEEDBACK;

EID: 84958524797     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07638-6_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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