Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-29185
Publication type: Article in scientific journal
Type of review: Peer review (publication)
Title: Leveraging realities of saving energy at home : contributions of co-design to behavioural interventions
Authors: Wemyss, Devon
Lobsiger-Kägi, Evelyn
Jud, S.
Cellina, F.
et. al: No
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103258
10.21256/zhaw-29185
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science
Volume(Issue): 104
Issue: 103258
Issue Date: 2023
Publisher / Ed. Institution: Elsevier
ISSN: 2214-6296
2214-6326
Language: English
Subjects: App; Behaviour change; Co-design; Energy
Subject (DDC): 333.79: Energy
Abstract: While reducing individual energy consumption contributes to climate change mitigation, many individuals who share this belief fail to act on it. While behavioural interventions try to address such intention-behaviour gaps, few approaches have worked with consumers to understand the realities of their opportunities and limitations to save energy at home. We argue that co-design is well-suited to address the unique challenges of climate-relevant behaviour change and propose an abductive co-design methodology to develop a behavioural intervention with household members based on the Model of Action Phases (MAP) framework. We implement the methodology to design an energy savings app and behaviour change intervention in Switzerland. The methodology shifts participants into an expert role and elucidates their motivations, real-life challenges, and knowledge gaps to save energy. Through group problem-solving and self-reflection, participants provided design inputs which address the socio-psychological gaps to progress behaviour through the preaction, action and postaction phases of the MAP. We assess the originality and feasibility of the co-design inputs, as well as reflect on the experience of the researchers and participants during the process. We conclude that co-design provided novel inputs relevant for progressing through the behaviour change stages identified by the MAP framework.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29185
Fulltext version: Published version
License (according to publishing contract): CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement: School of Engineering
School of Management and Law
Organisational Unit: Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE)
Institute of Sustainable Development (INE)
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Wemyss, D., Lobsiger-Kägi, E., Jud, S., & Cellina, F. (2023). Leveraging realities of saving energy at home : contributions of co-design to behavioural interventions. Energy Research & Social Science, 104(103258). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103258
Wemyss, D. et al. (2023) ‘Leveraging realities of saving energy at home : contributions of co-design to behavioural interventions’, Energy Research & Social Science, 104(103258). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103258.
D. Wemyss, E. Lobsiger-Kägi, S. Jud, and F. Cellina, “Leveraging realities of saving energy at home : contributions of co-design to behavioural interventions,” Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 104, no. 103258, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103258.
WEMYSS, Devon, Evelyn LOBSIGER-KÄGI, S. JUD und F. CELLINA, 2023. Leveraging realities of saving energy at home : contributions of co-design to behavioural interventions. Energy Research & Social Science. 2023. Bd. 104, Nr. 103258. DOI 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103258
Wemyss, Devon, Evelyn Lobsiger-Kägi, S. Jud, and F. Cellina. 2023. “Leveraging Realities of Saving Energy at Home : Contributions of Co-Design to Behavioural Interventions.” Energy Research & Social Science 104 (103258). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103258.
Wemyss, Devon, et al. “Leveraging Realities of Saving Energy at Home : Contributions of Co-Design to Behavioural Interventions.” Energy Research & Social Science, vol. 104, no. 103258, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103258.


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