Does it last? Long-term impacts of an app-based behavior change intervention on household electricity savings in Switzerland

Wemyss, Devon; Cellina, Francesca; Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn; Luca, Vanessa De; Castri, Roberta

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.08.018

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“…O resultado significativo (p-valor <0,10) da inclusão do aplicativo para dispositivo móvel (D) como forma de feedback mostra que os clientes estão interessados em utilizar o aplicativo para ter informações e dicas sobre o consumo. Pode-se presumir que os clientes reconhecem a importância desse tipo de feedback, pois permite o acesso a dados diferentes sobre o consumo em qualquer lugar e a qualquer momento, portanto, esse controle poderia ajudá-los a reduzir o consumo (WEMYSS et al, 2019).…”

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“…Já as informações monitoradas de consumo são 12º Congresso Brasileiro de Inovação e Gestão de Desenvolvimento do Produto 11 a 13 de setembro de 2019 -Universidade de Brasília UnB 4apresentadas na forma de feedback por meio de aplicativo para dispositivo móvel (D), que também é considerado como um atributo neste projeto. O aplicativo possibilita que a informação seja acessada em qualquer lugar e a qualquer momento(WEMYSS et al, 2019).…”

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Proposição De Medidor Inteligente Residencial a Proposal of a Residential Smart Meter

Cavalcante¹,

Capella²,

Lacroix³

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Blucher Engineering Proceedings

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As tecnologias IoT possibilitam aos produtos novas funcionalidades transformando-os em "produtos inteligentes". Entre as oportunidades apresentadas pela literatura para aplicação dessas tecnologias está o desenvolvimento de medidores inteligentes residenciais. Este trabalho tem por objetivo o desenvolvimento de uma pesquisa de mercado para um medidor inteligente com arquitetura modular para medir energia, água, gás em residências. Foi realizada uma pesquisa de mercado com a técnica Análise Conjunta Baseada em Escolhas em uma amostra de 202 potenciais clientes da região metropolitana de Florianópolis. Os principais resultados indicam que os potenciais clientes deste dispositivo atribuem maior importância para controle de energia e água, e o acesso às informações de consumo por meio de aplicativo. Também, identificou-se que os potenciais usuários são menos sensíveis ao preço do dispositivo, sendo que as mulheres e os consumidores de imóveis mais econômicos estão dispostos a pagar um preço mais pela implementação do medidor inteligente em suas residências.

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Proposição De Medidor Inteligente Residencial a Proposal of a Residential Smart Meter

Cavalcante¹,

Capella²,

Lacroix³

et al. 2019

Blucher Engineering Proceedings

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“…Once the challenge of engaging people has been addressed, the problem remains about how to maintain engagement over time. Attempts to promote individual behaviour change by means of ICT-based interventions might in fact be affected by high drop-out rates, such as for instance in the Social Power intervention, within whom 40% of participating households dropped out of a three month app-based gamified intervention (Wemyss et al 2019). A strategy to maintain users engaged for longer periods might be to leverage social relationships, building on already existing, real-life relations within a community and blending the behavioural change messages and programmes seamlessly in their activity.…”

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Visualizing and gamifying consumption data for resource saving: challenges, lessons learnt and a research agenda for the future

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In this paper we present insights drawn from recent research projects aimed at developing visualization and gamification tools to stimulate individual behaviour change and promote energy and water saving. We address both the design of resource-saving programmes and the methodologies to assess their effectiveness. We conclude by presenting a vision for the future and discussing open issues that could lead future research directions in the field of behavioural change approaches to resource sustainability.

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“…In a pilot project in Switzerland, Wemyss et al (2019) conducted a behavioural intervention based on a mobile phone 'app', called the 'Social Power App', that combined energy information sharing with social media gaming. They formed virtual communities that engaged cooperatively in energy conservation through energy feedback intended to trigger behaviour change.…”

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Chalk, talk, and energy efficiency: Saving electricity at South African schools through staff training and smart meter data visualisation

Samuels

Booysen

2019

Energy Research & Social Science

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South African schools are finding electricity costly in terms of money that could be spent on the primary purpose of educating children, but they tend not to be proactive about these costs. Managing the monthly bills is a huge task: the usage numbers on the bill are incomprehensible, the time-of-use tariff structure is bewilderingly complex, and the person who deals with payments is usually an overburdened teacher. This paper describes a controlled behavioural experiment carried out at five schools in Stellenbosch. We provided highly visualised and intuitive daily, weekly and monthly reports to three of the schools, the other two acting as controls. The reports were shared with teachers, principals and the governing body to encourage accountability. Usage was shown as a colour-coded energy and financial component per hour and per tariff class. Using the difference-indifferences method, we found financial savings of 11% and 14% at two of the schools and 13% at the third school, where staff were also trained on the tariff structure before reporting started. These results suggest that sharing high-frequency, digestible information could help South African schools reduce their energy bills; a saving that has particular relevance given the countrys dependence on fossil fuels.

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Does it last? Long-term impacts of an app-based behavior change intervention on household electricity savings in Switzerland

Cited by 72 publications

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Proposição De Medidor Inteligente Residencial a Proposal of a Residential Smart Meter

Proposição De Medidor Inteligente Residencial a Proposal of a Residential Smart Meter

Visualizing and gamifying consumption data for resource saving: challenges, lessons learnt and a research agenda for the future

Chalk, talk, and energy efficiency: Saving electricity at South African schools through staff training and smart meter data visualisation

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