Print Email Facebook Twitter Assessing the residential energy rebound effect by means of a serious game Title Assessing the residential energy rebound effect by means of a serious game Author Garay Garcia, Oscar (Student TU Delft) van Daalen, C. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) Chappin, E.J.L. (TU Delft Energie and Industrie) van Nuland, Bas (The Barn) Mohammed, I.S. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) Enserink, B. (TU Delft Policy Analysis) Date 2018 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. Subject Energy savingsGame as a research instrumentNRG gameRebound effect To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1b549959-371c-477d-a742-17e9d175f140 DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91902-7_13 Publisher Springer Science+Business Media Embargo date 2018-11-26 ISBN 9783319919010 Source Simulation Gaming: Applications for Sustainable Cities and Smart Infrastructures Event 48th conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association, ISAGA 2017, 2017-07-10 → 2017-07-14, Delft, Netherlands Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 0302-9743, 10825 LNCS Bibliographical note 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. Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2018 Oscar Garay Garcia, C. van Daalen, E.J.L. Chappin, Bas van Nuland, I.S. Mohammed, B. Enserink Files PDF GarayGarcia2018_Chapter_A ... nergyR.pdf 1.27 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1b549959-371c-477d-a742-17e9d175f140/datastream/OBJ/view