Rethinking user based innovation: Assessing public and professional perceptions of energy efficient building facades in Greece, Italy and Spain

Τσόκα, Στέλλα; Tsikaloudaki, Katerina; Theodosiou, Theodoros; Dugué, Antoine

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2018.02.009

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“…Further investigation using a Chi-square test confirmed that people with MSc/PhD education are more likely to be very knowledgeable about domestic energy-saving x 2 (11.089, p< .01). As expected and in line with the findings of [50], the vast majority of respondents (83%) felt responsible for saving energy (figure 8). After conducting a Chis-square test, it was found that people claiming to have a good/ very good knowledge are more likely to feel responsible about reducing their energy usage x 2 (6.275, p< .012) which was in agreement with the findings of [51].…”

Section: Environmental Knowledge and Awareness Of The Participants And Their Familiarity With Ictsupporting

confidence: 88%

From discovering to delivering: A critical reflection on eco-feedback, application design, and participatory research in the United Kingdom

Chalal

Medjdoub

Bull

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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The area of Eco-Feedback has received significant attention in recent years. Whilst there have been increasing calls to move 'beyond feedback' and consider the wider social, organisational and cultural context that feedback sits within, the involvement of community members in the design process of eco-feedback applications, known as co-design, has been limited. This study addresses that research gap through working collaboratively with community members to develop an accessible eco-feedback interface. First, we conducted an online survey questionnaire with 151 respondents with distinct socio-economic characteristics and environmental knowledge to get insights into their preferences about different aspects of the eco-feedback interface. Secondly, based on the survey findings, 20 community members living in Nottingham, UK, worked collaboratively to develop interface design proposals. Finally, the design of the eco-feedback interface was finalised based on the community interface prototypes and suggestions. The developed interface contains multiple information panels with options for expanding to gain deeper levels of information and a community space allowing for community interactions and sharing of information and actions. This research sheds new light on the challenges of utilising co-design principles to build eco-feedback interfaces. Specifically, we highlight the potential for interactions between community members during the design stages to allow for the generation of innovative ideas (e.g. Integration of third-party applications) moving the interface beyond feedback leading to greater adoption and energy savings.

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Section: Environmental Knowledge and Awareness Of The Participants And Their Familiarity With Ictsupporting

confidence: 88%

From discovering to delivering: A critical reflection on eco-feedback, application design, and participatory research in the United Kingdom

Chalal

Medjdoub

Bull

et al. 2020

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…Firstly, technical problems -lack of skilled workforce (Galvin and Sunikka-Blank (2013); Weiss, Dunkelberg and Vogelpohl, 2012), poor accessibility to skilled workers (Neuhoff et al, 2011;Sebi et al, 2019), lack of collaboration between differently skilled workers (Galvin and Sunikka-Blank, 2017); and difficulty in identifying which retrofit measures apply to individual properties (Wu et al, 2017). Secondly, financial problems -initial investments are unaffordable (Myhren et al, 2018;Ortiz, Caquero-Modrego and Salom, 2019;Tsoka et al, 2018); there is uncertainty around investment returns (Galvin, 2012), and there is a lack of financial support (Sebi et al, 2019). Thirdly, management problems -tensions can arise between landlords and tenants if the property owner is unwilling to invest in high energy-efficiency retrofits; this means tenants are unable to benefit from lower energy bills and more sustainable living (Lang et al, 2021).…”

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Decarbonising suburbia: Homeowners’ perspectives on home retrofits and travel mode shift in Perth, Scotland

Bucke

Smith

Horst

2022

Moravian Geographical Reports

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Suburban neighbourhoods pose challenges to decarbonisation, due to high car-dependency and relatively large and energy inefficient homes. Home ownership dominates suburbia, thus putting responsibility on households to adopt measures to decarbonise their domestic lives and transportation. This paper examines household perspectives on the feasibility of such measures. We ran a survey and focus groups in Perth (Scotland) during the energy crisis. Whilst we found high levels of concern about climate change, energy costs, and growing engagement with cleaner technologies (e.g. heat pumps), most residents felt decarbonisation options were limited. Barriers like technologies’ up-front costs, worsened with the cost of living crisis. Participants had low familiarity with sharing economy approaches like car clubs. Despite high (non-electric) bike ownership and prevalence of storage space (garages), cycling was more perceived as a leisure activity than a regular transport mode. There were shared views that the state should take a stronger role in coordinating and implementing systemic changes required for energy transition, including measures affecting residents directly, like reducing car traffic into the city centre. We conclude that despite the economic privilege of high home and car ownership in suburbia, few felt financially able to decarbonise and most seem locked into high-carbon suburban lifestyles.

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“…As a result, community acceptance should be viewed according to specific sectors and disciplines [27]. In the housing sector, community acceptance is shaped by factors associated with the information made available to users, public involvement in the projects, residents' trust in developers during the project development, and the anticipation of projects, including risks and benefits [33]. In cases where the installation of new technologies in social housing is decided by governmental policy instead of a decision by the residents, efforts are needed to inform and involve them regarding the benefits of technologies to avoid abandonment and replacement [29].…”

Section: Community Acceptance Of Sustainable Housingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Socio-Economic Drivers of Community Acceptance of Sustainable Social Housing: Evidence from Mumbai

2022

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The impact of socio-cultural outlooks on the acceptance of sustainability measures in a low-income context should be complemented by better understanding of socio-economic drivers to bridge the gaps between policy expectation and acceptance in social housing projects. The study attempts to explore the different aspects of well-being in determining the housing satisfaction of the residents of social housing under the slum rehabilitation schemes in Mumbai. Social housing offers considerably improved social and environmental sustainability components compared to slums; however, social acceptability remains low due to their location disadvantages. Using primary data collection from the sample of 298 households in Mumbai, the paper explores the varying levels of their housing satisfaction. The study found that economic opportunity is low in slum rehabilitation, mostly reflected in the job loss of the second earner, exacerbated by the change of work after shifting to social housing. Among other factors, location, accessibility of the building, household size and opportunity for social engagement play the most critical role in deciding the households’ perceived housing satisfaction with social housing compared to slums.

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Rethinking user based innovation: Assessing public and professional perceptions of energy efficient building facades in Greece, Italy and Spain

Cited by 16 publications

References 30 publications

From discovering to delivering: A critical reflection on eco-feedback, application design, and participatory research in the United Kingdom

From discovering to delivering: A critical reflection on eco-feedback, application design, and participatory research in the United Kingdom

Decarbonising suburbia: Homeowners’ perspectives on home retrofits and travel mode shift in Perth, Scotland

Socio-Economic Drivers of Community Acceptance of Sustainable Social Housing: Evidence from Mumbai

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