Rethinking social psychology and intervention design: A model of energy savings and human behavior

Ohnmacht, Timo; Schaffner, Dorothea; Weibel, Christian; Schad, Helmut

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.01.017

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“…Then, 'setting new routines' and finally 'refreezing' to establish the new behaviour to avoid a fall-back to old behavioral patterns is implemented. Finally, interventions strategies applied combine different tailored interventions described above in a systematic policy mix [10][11][12][13][14][15]. The so developed intervention strategies of the ECBA are systematically set up to target the different trigger points, segments and types of behaviours.…”

Section: Utilitee Energy Behaviour Change Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming Energy Efficiency into an Entirely New Customer Experience—An Effective Way to Engage Consumers—The UtilitEE Project Concept

Kompos

Launonen

Navarro³

et al. 2019

Sustainable Places 2019

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In this paper, we present the concept of UtilitEE project, an innovative and realistic solution for delivering a customer-oriented Behavioural Change Framework based on an open ICT ecosystem integrated into the building with low cost, off-the-shelf sensors. The solution also incorporates human-centric intelligent control features that use occupant comfort profiles and supportively control HVAC and lighting systems to minimize energy waste, while always keeping occupants comfortable and preserving a healthy indoor environment. Key part of the technical development work is the end users' involvement in co-designing the user interfaces and its features. In the following sections, the objectives and the preliminary high-level system architecture are presented along with the pilot deployment activities for system validation and demonstration.

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Section: Utilitee Energy Behaviour Change Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming Energy Efficiency into an Entirely New Customer Experience—An Effective Way to Engage Consumers—The UtilitEE Project Concept

Kompos

Launonen

Navarro³

et al. 2019

Sustainable Places 2019

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“…Kuckshinrichs evaluates the social impacts of energy efficient technology transition by means of building refurbishment programs supported by governments (as an intermediary actor) [104]. Beside a macro-scale evaluation of impacts of eco-innovations, transition conceptualization is also applied directly to behavior change progress in order to figure out relevant interventions of individual energy savings [12,105]. In parallel to recent technological advancements, big data and social network innovations are considered to be facilitator for the monitoring of 'behavior transitions' of individuals [106].…”

Section: Influencess Of Innovation Studies To Behavior Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

On Occupant Behavior and Innovation Studies Towards High Performance Buildings: A Transdisciplinary Approach

Keskin

Mengüç

2018

Sustainability

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With ever-increasing population and urbanization, it is crucial to decrease energy density in the built environment without sacrificing occupants’ comfort and well-being. This requires consideration of technological developments along with the human factor in order to achieve environmental and social sustainability. Two major contributors to the development of conceptualizations for human-centric technologies are behavior and innovation (B&I) studies. Behavior studies aims to explain individualistic or society-based dynamics of human behavior whereas the innovation studies focuses on social, economic, organizational, and regulatory dimensions and processes of inventive activity. If these studies are incorporated into the hardcore architecture and engineering disciplines with a transdisciplinary approach, the orchestration of occupant behavior and the innovative technologies would be possible, which in turn significantly enhance the comfort and energy efficiency in built environments. This paper aims to provide an overview of interdisciplinary dialog between B&I studies and underlines the role of their collaboration to leverage transdisciplinary research on human-building interaction for energy efficiency. The approach presented here is structured as a conceptual framework and named the ‘socio-technical core’ (STC). STC is to lead to more organic articulation of energy efficiency innovations with real life and pave the way for higher level of acceptance. In order to have a ‘big-picture’ for the well-accepted conceptualizations and the current status of interdisciplinary dialog, we provide a review of (B&I) theories and models along with network analysis of key concepts. Then we investigate the potential directions of future transdisciplinary efforts by discussing the influences of B&I studies to each other for application to energy efficiency studies. In order to put the analysis in a firm background, we provide a case study for thermostat, which can be considered as a product improved with B&I approaches during last decades. We also discuss the benefits of B&I based transdisciplinary research perspective by referring to few examples in literature and the points emerged in this study.

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“…One option to solve this crisis is to promote individual actions, i.e. to encourage people to change their lifestyle and reduce their carbon footprint [1,2].…”

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Confronting, collaborating, withdrawing? A psychiatric evaluation of three strategies to promote political climate action

Barbalat¹

2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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word count: 189. Word count: 4965 (exclusive of references). 2 BLINDED TITLE PAGE Title: Confronting, collaborating, withdrawing? A psychiatric evaluation of three strategies to promote political climate action Abstract word count: 189. Word count: 4965 (exclusive of references). BLINDED TITLE PAGE Title: Confronting, collaborating, withdrawing? A psychiatric evaluation of three strategies to promote political climate action Abstract word count: 189. Word count: 4965 (exclusive of references). 4 ABSTRACTThis qualitative study analyzes the lack of political action to address climate change using a psychiatric lens, and frames that ambivalence lies at the core of inaction.While most politicians understand that climate action is absolutely necessary, any significant action is stalled by a number of important barriers they have to overcome.Using clinical analogies from eating disorders and the scientific literature on motivational change, this paper analyses three current strategies that push for political action. First, using force and emotions (like confronting activists) is equivalent to playing a power struggle, which risks increasing politicians' resistance to change. Second, collaborative discussions in multilateral conferences and debates risk feeding verbal manifestos without enacting behavioural change.Withdrawal from the manifestos of politicians is a third strategy to push for change discussed in this paper. However, even after bypassing manifestos, this strategy is unlikely to succeed because the benefits of greenhouse gas emissions, linked to our current social norms, seriously outweigh the benefits of climate action. Overall, all three methods present severe flaws and are not viable solutions to help politicians implement climate action. Other enhanced options are likely to be necessary.

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Rethinking social psychology and intervention design: A model of energy savings and human behavior

Cited by 56 publications

References 75 publications

Transforming Energy Efficiency into an Entirely New Customer Experience—An Effective Way to Engage Consumers—The UtilitEE Project Concept

Transforming Energy Efficiency into an Entirely New Customer Experience—An Effective Way to Engage Consumers—The UtilitEE Project Concept

On Occupant Behavior and Innovation Studies Towards High Performance Buildings: A Transdisciplinary Approach

Confronting, collaborating, withdrawing? A psychiatric evaluation of three strategies to promote political climate action

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