Emo-bin: How to recycle more by using emoticons
Jose Oriol Lopez Berengueres, Fatma Alsuwairi, Nazar Zaki, Tony Ng · 2013 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) · 2013
In UAE only 10% of PET bottles are recycled. We introduce an emoticon-bin, a recycle bin that rewards users with smiles and sounds. When a user recycles the bin smiles. We show that by exploiting human responsiveness to emoticons, recycling rates increase by a factor of x3.