Assessing the residential energy rebound effect by means of a serious game

Oscar Garay Garcia; C. Els van Daalen; Emile Chappin; Bas van Nuland; Iman Mohammed; Bert Enserink

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91902-7_13

Assessing the residential energy rebound effect by means of a serious game

Oscar Garay Garcia, C. Els van Daalen^*, Emile Chappin, Bas van Nuland, Iman Mohammed, Bert Enserink

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Abstract

Residential energy efficiency improvements often have a smaller effect than expected. Although there is agreement on the existence of this effect, called the rebound effect, there is no agreement on the size of the effect. The objective of this study was to investigate the potential of using serious games to assess this effect. We used a game in which participants play home owners who manage their households in terms of energy consumption. Results of experiments with 50 players showed signs of the rebound effect when players with a low efficiency house reduced their energy consumption more than players with a high efficiency house. In addition, some issues related to previous studies were addressed, such as the possibility to perform an ex-ante assessment and to conduct the study in a controlled environment. Calculations of the size of the rebound effect depended on the approach used to determine the expected effect and showed differences between appliances.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Simulation Gaming
Subtitle of host publication	Applications for Sustainable Cities and Smart Infrastructures
Publisher	Springer
Pages	129-138
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9783319919010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91902-7_13
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	48th conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association, ISAGA 2017 - Delft, Netherlands Duration: 10 Jul 2017 → 14 Jul 2017 http://www.isaga2017.com/

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	10825 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	48th conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association, ISAGA 2017
Abbreviated title	ISAGA 2017
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Delft
Period	10/07/17 → 14/07/17
Internet address	http://www.isaga2017.com/

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

Energy savings
Game as a research instrument
NRG game
Rebound effect

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Garay Garcia, O., van Daalen, C. E., Chappin, E., van Nuland, B., Mohammed, I., & Enserink, B. (2018). Assessing the residential energy rebound effect by means of a serious game. In Simulation Gaming: Applications for Sustainable Cities and Smart Infrastructures (pp. 129-138). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10825 LNCS). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91902-7_13

Garay Garcia, Oscar ; van Daalen, C. Els ; Chappin, Emile et al. / Assessing the residential energy rebound effect by means of a serious game. Simulation Gaming: Applications for Sustainable Cities and Smart Infrastructures. Springer, 2018. pp. 129-138 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Assessing the residential energy rebound effect by means of a serious game. / Garay Garcia, Oscar; van Daalen, C. Els ; Chappin, Emile et al.
Simulation Gaming: Applications for Sustainable Cities and Smart Infrastructures. Springer, 2018. p. 129-138 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 10825 LNCS).

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Garay Garcia O, van Daalen CE , Chappin E, van Nuland B, Mohammed I, Enserink B. Assessing the residential energy rebound effect by means of a serious game. In Simulation Gaming: Applications for Sustainable Cities and Smart Infrastructures. Springer. 2018. p. 129-138. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91902-7_13

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