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Energy saving activities are human activities to reduce energy consumption. These activities can be an effective measure to reduce energy consumption and humans can start them immediately, so it is expected as a measure against resource depletion and increased carbon dioxide emissions. In this context, there have been attempts made from various viewpoints based on the knowledge that the improvement of understanding it would lead to putting it into practice. However, the results of a questionnaire survey on energy saving activities have indicated that there is a gap between understanding and in-practice regarding energy saving, and improvement of understanding does not lead to in-practice. From this point, it is expected not to improving the understanding, but to propose a method that gives direct motivation for energy saving activities. In this study, we focus on@“vanity”, which is considered to be one of human needs for promoting energy saving activities. Here, “vanity” means a desire to pretend to be something good they are not. The purpose of this study is to consider experimentally whether energy saving activities could be applied to the target of vanity. At first, we will consider a method of applying vanity for energy saving activities and construct an experimental system to experimentally verify whether or not vanity could act as a motivation to promote energy saving activities. The experiment will be conducted using the experimental system to check if there are any persons who activate vanity regarding energy saving activities.
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Ito, K., Kishi, Y., Nishida, S. (2020). Utilization of Vanity to Promote Energy Saving Activities. In: Meiselwitz, G. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. Design, Ethics, User Behavior, and Social Network Analysis. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12194. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49570-1_6
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