Exploring the use of a game to stimulate energy saving in households

Geelen, Daphne; Keyson, David V.; Boess, Stella; Brezet, Han

doi:10.1504/jdr.2012.046096

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“…However, one area that is gaining social marketing interest in a low‐income household context is energy consumption as there is growing societal concern over the rises in energy costs (Waiit, Roggeveen Gordon, Butler & Cooper, ; Sweeney, Webb, Mazzarol, & Soutar, ), which have a disproportionate impact on low‐income households who have limited disposable incomes (Butler, Gordon, Roggevee, Waitt, & Cooper, ). Research has provided evidence that energy saving behavior can be encouraged by marketing and serious games (Sweeney et al., ; Geelen, Keyson, Boess, & Brezet, ); however, there is little, if, any research on how serious games can encourage low‐income households to be energy efficient.…”

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How Does Serious M‐Game Technology Encourage Low‐Income Households To Perform Socially Responsible Behaviors?

Yam

Russell‐Bennett

Foth

et al. 2017

Psychology and Marketing

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Despite the increasing use of technology, there is little research in the marketing literature that examines how games can encourage households to achieve socially responsible behaviors such as energy efficiency. Social marketing is a subdiscipline of marketing that applies technology such as serious games in the pursuit of socially responsible behaviors. We investigate in this study how a serious mobile game (m‐game) (Reduce Your Juice) can encourage households to perform energy‐efficient behaviors by conducting group interviews with six households (n = 17) in Brisbane, Australia. The findings reveal that households gained knowledge and were motivated and persuaded to engage in energy‐efficient behaviors as the result of the customer experience of playing the serious m‐game. We provide practitioners with implications for game design and evidence that serious m‐games can encourage group level behaviors such as household energy efficiency.

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confidence: 99%

How Does Serious M‐Game Technology Encourage Low‐Income Households To Perform Socially Responsible Behaviors?

Yam

Russell‐Bennett

Foth

et al. 2017

Psychology and Marketing

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“…By combining them, we argue, they provide a powerful environmental nudge, that is, a way to influence building stakeholders to do the right thing without compromising their freedom of choice [71]. Indeed, comparative and disaggregate data, when available, open the door to friendly competition among floors, departments, and units in a commercial setting, and such a gaming context is prone to make change happen [72].…”

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Ten questions concerning integrating smart buildings into the smart grid

Lawrence

Boudreau

Helsen

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Building and Environment

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Recent advances in information and communications technology (ICT) have initiated development of a smart electrical grid and smart buildings. Buildings consume a large portion of the total electricity production worldwide, and to fully develop a smart grid they must be integrated with that grid. Buildings can now be 'prosumers' on the grid (both producers and consumers), and the continued growth of distributed renewable energy generation is raising new challenges in terms of grid stability over various time scales. Buildings can contribute to grid stability by managing their overall electrical demand in response to current conditions. Facility managers must balance demand response requests by grid operators with energy needed to maintain smooth building operations. For example, maintaining thermal comfort within an occupied building requires energy and, thus an optimized solution balancing energy use with indoor environmental quality (adequate thermal comfort, lighting, etc.) is needed. Successful integration of buildings and their systems with the grid also requires interoperable data exchange. However, the adoption and integration of newer control and communication technologies into buildings can be problematic with older legacy HVAC and building control systems. Public policy and economic structures have not kept up with the technical developments that have given rise to the budding smart grid, and further developments are needed in both technical and nontechnical areas.

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“…al., 2011), por sistemas de gestão de energia doméstica -Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) -( VAN DAM, et. al., 2012), pela gamificação (GEELEN, et. al., 2012), para o aquecimento (KUIJER e DE JONG, 2012), em ar condicionado (BHAMRA e TANG, 2012) e pela renovação doméstica do uso de energia (HAINES, V., et.…”

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A PESQUISA EM DESIGN PARA O COMPORTAMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL: lacunas e desafios

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Santos²

2016

Anais Do 5º Simpósio Brasileiro De Design Sustentável

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Aguinaldo do Santos Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) asantos@ufpr.brResumo: O presente artigo promove a discussão acerca dos desafios da pesquisa em Design para o comportamento sustentável -Design for Sustainable Behavior (DfSB). É apresentada uma breve discussão sobre a definição do termo, sobre comportamentos e hábitos e sobre o projeto da mudança de comportamento. São mostrados exemplos de produtos que proporcionam a mudança de comportamento e as lacunas para futuras pesquisas. Como conclusão é apresentado um panorama geral da pesquisa em DfSB e são mostradas propostas de abordagens para futuras investigações. Palavras-chave:

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Exploring the use of a game to stimulate energy saving in households

Cited by 55 publications

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How Does Serious M‐Game Technology Encourage Low‐Income Households To Perform Socially Responsible Behaviors?

How Does Serious M‐Game Technology Encourage Low‐Income Households To Perform Socially Responsible Behaviors?

Ten questions concerning integrating smart buildings into the smart grid

A PESQUISA EM DESIGN PARA O COMPORTAMENTO SUSTENTÁVEL: lacunas e desafios

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