Using Persuasive Technologies for Energy Consumption Management: A South African Case Study
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In this paper the authors evaluate Chevron’s Energyville, as an example of a persuasive technology, which is used to change attitudes and behaviours. The authors want to explore this simulation in terms of it’s potential to be transplanted as a persuasive technology into the South African context, given the fact that South Africa is experiencing an energy crisis currently and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009