TY - GEN
T1 - Reducing Energy Consumption by Behavioural Change
AU - Albert, Dietrich
AU - Bedek, Michael
AU - Horn, Wolfgang
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - On global as well as national levels, top-down approaches to reduce climate-related energy consumption have not been successful and effective at all until now. Thus, a bottom-up approach is recommended: citizens role should change from consumers to prosumers, to (co-)decision-makers regarding energy-related behaviour, and to co-investors in the new energy infrastructure. However behavioural change is difficult to realize in face of the ‘knowledge-behaviour gap’, ‘value-action gap’ or ‘attitude-behaviour gap’. Thus, the CODALoop project collected data with its platform Energanz and developed the socio-cognitive model for energy-related behaviour. In the new planned IF4E project that model becomes an integrated module of a process model for energy-related behavioural change with real-time feedback loops, real-time energy consumption data, and a user’s Personal Energy Profile (PEP) which is updated continuously. The challenges and risks in investigating and implementing the proposed process model in real settings for changing climate-related energy consumption behaviour are discussed. This position paper aims receiving feedback of experts regarding the planned project before its realization.
AB - On global as well as national levels, top-down approaches to reduce climate-related energy consumption have not been successful and effective at all until now. Thus, a bottom-up approach is recommended: citizens role should change from consumers to prosumers, to (co-)decision-makers regarding energy-related behaviour, and to co-investors in the new energy infrastructure. However behavioural change is difficult to realize in face of the ‘knowledge-behaviour gap’, ‘value-action gap’ or ‘attitude-behaviour gap’. Thus, the CODALoop project collected data with its platform Energanz and developed the socio-cognitive model for energy-related behaviour. In the new planned IF4E project that model becomes an integrated module of a process model for energy-related behavioural change with real-time feedback loops, real-time energy consumption data, and a user’s Personal Energy Profile (PEP) which is updated continuously. The challenges and risks in investigating and implementing the proposed process model in real settings for changing climate-related energy consumption behaviour are discussed. This position paper aims receiving feedback of experts regarding the planned project before its realization.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107389707&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-8944-7_16
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-8944-7_16
M3 - Conference paper
SN - 9789811589430
T3 - Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies
SP - 257
EP - 268
BT - Activity and Behavior Computing
A2 - Ahad, Md Atiqur Rahman
A2 - Inoue, Sozo
A2 - Roggen, Daniel
A2 - Fujinami, Kaori
PB - Springer Nature
T2 - 2020 International Conference on Activity and Behavior Computing
Y2 - 26 August 2020 through 29 August 2020
ER -