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The paper invites to a reflection on the way energy efficiency (serious) games – i.e. those addressing the issue of behavioral change in individual energy consumption – are and should be designed to better fulfil the goals assigned to Demand Side Management programs, notably run by governments and utilities, with special respect to public buildings (i.e. other than private homes). We introduce three contextual design goals and contend that more can be done to exploit the potential of gamification in the domain at hand.
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This research has been made possible in part by an Interreg Central Europe 2014–2020 grant from the European Commission (project no. 051 – TOGETHER, Lead Partner Provincia di Treviso). However, the opinions expressed in this paper are solely of the authors and do not engage or commit any European institution.
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Molinari, F., Zonta, A. (2017). Putting Serious Games in Context: The Energy Efficiency of Buildings Case. In: Alcañiz, M., Göbel, S., Ma, M., Fradinho Oliveira, M., Baalsrud Hauge, J., Marsh, T. (eds) Serious Games. JCSG 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10622. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70111-0_28
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