A Framework to Develop Persuasive Smart Environments

  • Authors:
  • Pedro Lobo;Teresa Romão;A. Eduardo Dias;José Carlos Danado

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies (CITI-DI/FCT/UNL), and DI-Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Quinta da Torre, Portugal 2829-516;Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies (CITI-DI/FCT/UNL), and DI-Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, Quinta da Torre, Portugal 2829-516;Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies (CITI-DI/FCT/UNL), and DI-University of Évora, Évora, Portugal 7000-671;YDreams, Edifício YDreams, Madan Parque Sul, Portugal 2829-149

  • Venue:
  • AmI '09 Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a framework for the creation of context-sensitive persuasive applications. The framework allows the authoring of new persuasive smart environments producing the appropriate feedback to the users based on different sensors spread throughout the environment to capture contextual information. Using this framework, we created an application, Smart Bins, aimed at promoting users' behavioural changes regarding the recycling of waste materials. Furthermore, to evaluate the usability of our authoring tool, we performed user tests to analyze if developers could successfully create the Smart Bins application using the framework. A description of the Smart Bins application, as well as the results of the user tests, are also presented in this paper.