Mona Prisa : a tool for behaviour change in renewable energy communities
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- Olivia De Ruyck (UGent) , Peter Conradie (UGent) , Lieven De Marez (UGent) and Jelle Saldien (UGent)
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- Innovative construction projects, such as Energy Communities, are crucial to meet challenging climate objectives. However, currently residents of shared energy projects receive no feedback about the real-time consumption in the building and they cannot adjust their behaviour according to the needs of the community. In this paper we introduce the “Mona Prisa”, an interactive prototype dashboard with the looks of a painting at the entrance of a building which is part of an Energy Community. The design is based on the results from 51 interviews with 37 experts living or involved in an energy community and 14 non-experts. We question the level of openness of participants to energy behavior change and how this information should be visualized for a community, not on an individual level. We present the translation of these insights into a prototype with real-time energy, water and heat flows. The content is based on three important features of energy consumption feedback: awareness, action-based feedback and gamifica- tion. Interaction with the prototype is possible by infrared sensors and a camera for face detection. In this paper we focus on the design process and components of the product. We conclude with future development ideas.
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- Energy consumption feedback, Prototype, Energy community, Feedback, Information, Interface, Behaviour change
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8710549
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- De Ruyck, Olivia, et al. “Mona Prisa : A Tool for Behaviour Change in Renewable Energy Communities.” Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Proceedings, edited by N. Shaghaghi et al., vol. 377, Springer, 2021, pp. 102–17, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_7.
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- De Ruyck, O., Conradie, P., De Marez, L., & Saldien, J. (2021). Mona Prisa : a tool for behaviour change in renewable energy communities. In N. Shaghaghi, F. Lamberti, B. Beams, R. Shariatmadari, & A. Amer (Eds.), Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Proceedings (Vol. 377, pp. 102–117). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_7
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- De Ruyck, Olivia, Peter Conradie, Lieven De Marez, and Jelle Saldien. 2021. “Mona Prisa : A Tool for Behaviour Change in Renewable Energy Communities.” In Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Proceedings, edited by N. Shaghaghi, F. Lamberti, B. Beams, R. Shariatmadari, and A. Amer, 377:102–17. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_7.
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- De Ruyck, Olivia, Peter Conradie, Lieven De Marez, and Jelle Saldien. 2021. “Mona Prisa : A Tool for Behaviour Change in Renewable Energy Communities.” In Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Proceedings, ed by. N. Shaghaghi, F. Lamberti, B. Beams, R. Shariatmadari, and A. Amer, 377:102–117. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76426-5_7.
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- 1.De Ruyck O, Conradie P, De Marez L, Saldien J. Mona Prisa : a tool for behaviour change in renewable energy communities. In: Shaghaghi N, Lamberti F, Beams B, Shariatmadari R, Amer A, editors. Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Proceedings. Springer; 2021. p. 102–17.
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- [1]O. De Ruyck, P. Conradie, L. De Marez, and J. Saldien, “Mona Prisa : a tool for behaviour change in renewable energy communities,” in Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Proceedings, Virtual Event, 2021, vol. 377, pp. 102–117.
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abstract = {{Innovative construction projects, such as Energy Communities, are crucial to meet challenging climate objectives. However, currently residents of shared energy projects receive no feedback about the real-time consumption in the building and they cannot adjust their behaviour according to the needs of the community. In this paper we introduce the “Mona Prisa”, an interactive prototype dashboard with the looks of a painting at the entrance of a building which is part of an Energy Community. The design is based on the results from 51 interviews with 37 experts living or involved in an energy community and 14 non-experts. We question the level of openness of participants to energy behavior change and how this information should be visualized for a community, not on an individual level. We present the translation of these insights into a prototype with real-time energy, water and heat flows. The content is based on three important features of energy consumption feedback: awareness, action-based feedback and gamifica- tion. Interaction with the prototype is possible by infrared sensors and a camera for face detection. In this paper we focus on the design process and components of the product. We conclude with future development ideas.}},
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booktitle = {{Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, 12th EAI International Conference, INTETAIN 2020, Proceedings}},
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