Examining community-level collaborative vs. competitive approaches to enhance household electricity-saving behavior

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

doi:10.1007/s12053-018-9691-z

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-11158

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Examining community-level collaborative vs. competitive approaches to enhance household electricity-saving behavior
Authors:	Wemyss, Devon Castri, Roberta Cellina, Francesca De Luca, Vanessa Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn Carabias-Hütter, Vicente
DOI:	10.1007/s12053-018-9691-z 10.21256/zhaw-11158
Published in:	Energy Efficiency
Volume(Issue):	11
Issue:	8
Page(s):	2057
Pages to:	2075
Issue Date:	6-Jun-2018
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
ISSN:	1570-646X 1570-6478
Language:	English
Subjects:	Electricity-saving behaviour; Community-level; Household; Intervention
Subject (DDC):	333.79: Energy
Abstract:	To test the effectiveness of a competitive or collaborative approach on engaging people to change their household electricity-use habits, a mobile app, called Social Power, is developed to provide electricity meter feedback in two gamified environments. The project aims at stimulating social engagement and promoting behavioral change to save electricity at the household level by forming teams of neighbors in two Swiss cities. The household participants are assigned to one of two teams: either a collaborative team where citizens in the same city try to reach a fixed, 10% electricity savings target collectively or a competitive team which tries to save the most electricity in comparison to another city. The collaborative and competitive gamified structures are run in parallel as a 3-month field experiment (February to May 2016) involving 108 recruited household participants in two cities, with ultimately 46 who actively play. In this paper, we present the result of the two gamified structures on the sustainability of reported behavior, as well as on actual saved electricity. Overall, a collaborative or a competitive intervention contributes to electricity savings and reported behavior as compared to the control group; however, no significant difference is found between the two gamified structures.
Further description:	Erworben im Rahmen der Schweizer Nationallizenzen (http://www.nationallizenzen.ch)
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/11158
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Management and Law

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Wemyss, D., Castri, R., Cellina, F., De Luca, V., Lobsiger-Kägi, E., & Carabias-Hütter, V. (2018). Examining community-level collaborative vs. competitive approaches to enhance household electricity-saving behavior. Energy Efficiency, 11(8), 2057–2075. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-018-9691-z

Wemyss, D. et al. (2018) ‘Examining community-level collaborative vs. competitive approaches to enhance household electricity-saving behavior’, Energy Efficiency, 11(8), pp. 2057–2075. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-018-9691-z.

D. Wemyss, R. Castri, F. Cellina, V. De Luca, E. Lobsiger-Kägi, and V. Carabias-Hütter, “Examining community-level collaborative vs. competitive approaches to enhance household electricity-saving behavior,” Energy Efficiency, vol. 11, no. 8, pp. 2057–2075, Jun. 2018, doi: 10.1007/s12053-018-9691-z.

WEMYSS, Devon, Roberta CASTRI, Francesca CELLINA, Vanessa DE LUCA, Evelyn LOBSIGER-KÄGI und Vicente CARABIAS-HÜTTER, 2018. Examining community-level collaborative vs. competitive approaches to enhance household electricity-saving behavior. Energy Efficiency. 6 Juni 2018. Bd. 11, Nr. 8, S. 2057–2075. DOI 10.1007/s12053-018-9691-z

Wemyss, Devon, Roberta Castri, Francesca Cellina, Vanessa De Luca, Evelyn Lobsiger-Kägi, and Vicente Carabias-Hütter. 2018. “Examining Community-Level Collaborative vs. Competitive Approaches to Enhance Household Electricity-Saving Behavior.” Energy Efficiency 11 (8): 2057–75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-018-9691-z.

Wemyss, Devon, et al. “Examining Community-Level Collaborative vs. Competitive Approaches to Enhance Household Electricity-Saving Behavior.” Energy Efficiency, vol. 11, no. 8, June 2018, pp. 2057–75, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12053-018-9691-z.