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A Design Method of Online Community for Behavior Change Focusing on Participants’ Relationship

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Behavior change is sometimes needed to solve energy problems. A design method of online community for behavior change, which is a socio-psychology based systematic method, was proposed. The features of the proposed methods are (1) adaptation of community to behavior change stage of participants and social recommendation level of target behavior and (2) designing online community with communication content and strength of relationship between members.

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The authors were grateful for the support of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan via “Energy Science in the Age of Global Warming” of Global Center of Excellence (G-COE) program (J-051).

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Aoyagi, S., Ishii, H., Shimoda, H. (2013). A Design Method of Online Community for Behavior Change Focusing on Participants’ Relationship. In: Yao, T. (eds) Zero-Carbon Energy Kyoto 2012. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54264-3_8

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