Title
Analysis of Recycling Capabilities of Individuals and Crowds to Encourage and Educate People to Separate Their Garbage Playfully
Abstract
Sorting garbage is a relevant topic in many countries as it contributes to environmental protection. Empirical evidence suggests that not all people separate waste, potentially because they do not know how to do it correctly or are simply not motivated enough. We present the results of an online study (N=184) investigating people's capabilities for classifying waste, their capabilities to improve in this task over time and their current garbage separation behavior. The study confirms that the Wisdom of Crowds is applicable in this context as the crowd produces only half as many errors as the individual and feedback helps participants to improve. Based on this, we introduce the idea of a crowd classifying waste in a game, with their classification result then being used as feedback on gamified public trash cans to educate both the crowd playing the game and people using the trash can playfully.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2702123.2702309
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
miscellaneous,behavior change support system,wisdom of crowds,waste separation,gamification,games with a purpose
Crowds,Garbage,Empirical evidence,Know-how,Computer science,Wisdom of crowds,Sorting,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
15
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pascal Lessel15911.38
Maximilian Altmeyer2198.57
Antonio Krüger31537127.04