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'Inside the box': a cooperative game for co-creating energy efficient retail spaces
conference contribution
posted on 2019-07-04, 15:33 authored by Elli Nikolaidou, Yang Yu, Robert Schmidt III, Andrew Dainty, Malcolm CookMalcolm Cook, Ksenia ChmutinaKsenia Chmutina, Dashamir MariniAlthough sustainability is one of the drivers of change in the retail sector, employees still treat energy management
as a lower priority compared with other operational tasks. As digital technologies are flourishing, gamification is an emerging method of raising energy awareness, with most examples however targeting individuals, and therefore not supporting teamworking approaches to handling end user building energy demand. As such, combining behavioural incentivisation and technological development is a critical
socio-technical challenge within the retail environments. The development of a new cooperative role-playing game that harnesses the participatory character of game theory
to boost collegiality and encourage the energy-conscious behaviour of staff in a supermarket located in the UK, is described. By feeding the game with energy simulation
results, this can be regarded as a novel synergy between behavioural science and game theory within the field of building energy. Future research will focus on testing the
real-world potential of the game to engage retail staff in co-creating energy efficient stores.
Funding
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
Proceedings of Building Simulation 2019: 16th Conference of IBPSAPages
2371 - 2378Citation
NIKOLAIDOU, E. ... et al, 2019. 'Inside the box': a cooperative game for co-creating energy efficient retail spaces. IN: Corrado, V. ... et al (eds). Proceedings of Building Simulation 2019: 16th Conference of IBPSA, Rome, Italy, 2nd-4th September 2019, pp.2371-2378.Publisher
IBPSAVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Acceptance date
2019-06-04Publication date
2020-04-01ISBN
9781775052012ISSN
2522-2708Publisher version
Language
- en