Comportamento do consumidor na conservação de energia: investigação de tendências em artigos de duas fontes de pesquisa

Abstract

This article sets out to identify and analyse the scientific production in the field of psychology and engineering research of consumer behavior in relation to energy conservation. Selected articles found in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis (JABA) and digital library IEEEXplore resulting, with the keyword "energy consumer" in 51 articles in JABA and source with the keywords "feedback, energy consumer behavior and persuasive technology", 38 articles in IEEEXplore source. The analysis of samples for convenience has resulted in choice of 3 articles in the first source and 5 articles in the second source. It was observed that, in the journal articles were published in JABA years 1979, 1981 and 1982 showing consumer behavior facing the withdrawal of stimulus presentation with feedback in a A-B-A configuration as the IEEEXplore publications are recent articles with studies focused on the effectiveness of technological instruments to encourage and capture uses.