• Acceptance: an important design reflection surrounds the
acceptance of drones as agents to monitor waste and waste
disposal in public areas. The main design criteria was for
the agent to be “natural, pleasant and safe!”. As we have
alluded to in the introduction of our paper, societal acceptance
of drones is a gradual process. In addition, the
acceptance of drones may be influenced by demographic
factors such as gender and culture. Our results showed
that females considered the drone to be significantly more
friendly than males (p = 0.04) - see Figure 3.
for a month (for example), and at the end of the month,
the person that picked up the most trash objects would be