Immersive virtual reality helps to promote pro-environmental norms, attitudes and behavioural strategies

Autor: Emmanuelle P. Kleinlogel, Marianne Schmid Mast, Laetitia A. Renier, Manuel Bachmann, Tobias Brosch
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, Vol 8, Iss , Pp 100105- (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2666-7843
DOI: 10.1016/j.clrc.2023.100105
Popis: Our study focuses on the promotion of sustainable actions that individuals can adopt at home. We tested the effectiveness of different formats of conducting promotional campaigns providing pro-environmental knowledge. Specifically, we assessed whether the same message delivered in print, in a video or in an immersive virtual environment, via a virtual human that resembles the participant or not, affects norms, attitudes and behavioural strategies in relation to energy saving gestures. Results revealed that receiving pro-environmental knowledge while being immersed in virtual reality led to greater energy saving attitudes and a different use of products and appliances at home as compared to receiving the same information via more traditional means. The present work aims to sensitise governmental and pro-environmental organisations about the effectiveness of using immersive virtual reality to conduct such campaigns.
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