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However, motivating users to adopt sustainable behaviors through interactive technologies presents significant psychological, cultural, and technical challenges in creating engaging and long-lasting experiences. Aligned with this perspective, there is a dearth of research and design solutions addressing the use of persuasive technology to promote sustainable recycling behavior. Guided by a participatory design approach, this investigation focuses on the design opportunities for leveraging persuasive and human-centered Internet of Things (IoT) applications to enhance user engagement in recycling activities. The assumption is that one pathway to achieve this goal is to adopt persuasive strategies that may be incorporated into the design of sustainable applications. The insights gained from this process can then be applied to various sustainable HCI scenarios and therefore contribute to HCI\u2019s limited understanding in this area by providing a series of design-oriented research recommendations for informing the development of persuasive and socially engaged recycling platforms. In particular, we advocate for the inclusion of educational content, real-time interactive feedback, and intuitive interfaces to actively engage users in recycling activities. Moreover, recognizing the cultural context in which the technology is socially situated becomes imperative for the effective implementation of smart devices to foster sustainable recycling practices. To this end, we present a case study that seeks to involve children and adolescents in pro-recycling activities within the school environment.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/informatics12010005","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,8]],"date-time":"2025-01-08T07:40:13Z","timestamp":1736322013000},"page":"5","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Encouraging Sustainable Choices Through Socially Engaged Persuasive Recycling Initiatives: A Participatory Action Design Research Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Emilly Marques","family":"da Silva","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Postgraduate Program in Informatics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-916, Brazil"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2987-4732","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel","family":"Schneider","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Postgraduate Program in Informatics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-916, Brazil"}]},{"given":"Claudio","family":"Miceli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-972, Brazil"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2736-3835","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ant\u00f3nio","family":"Correia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Information Technology, University of Jyv\u00e4skyl\u00e4, P.O. 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