A Serious Game for Changing Mindsets About Loans for Home Retrofitting

Olivier  Dikken; Kushal  Prakash; Bart  Roseboom; Ana  Rubio; Sander Østvik; Maijael Bueno; Nestor Z. Salamon; Rafael Bidarra

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_33

A Serious Game for Changing Mindsets About Loans for Home Retrofitting

Olivier Dikken, Kushal Prakash, Bart Roseboom, Ana Rubio, Sander Østvik, Maijael Bueno , Nestor Z. Salamon, Rafael Bidarra

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Abstract

Adding energy-saving products to your house can benefit the economy, the environment and your living comfort. However, these products are very costly, and many people cannot afford them using their own savings. There exist several options for funding these projects, but people do not take advantage of such due to lack of information and the common negative view on using external funding. Psychological objections on taking loans include future time perspective, perception of short time rewards and connotation of loans itself. This paper presents a serious game aimed at changing people’s mindset on taking loans to retrofit energy into their homes; Supreme Green Time Machine is a tycoon game in which you can acquire energy-saving products for your home. A main mechanic in the game is the opportunity to take loans to fund the purchase of these upgrades. Combined with other underlying mechanics, such as the time progress and social feedback, the game targets the different psychological objections to long term loans for home retrofitting. From a preliminary evaluation, we conclude that Supreme Green Time Machine effectively succeeds in making players more positive towards using loans to retrofit their homes.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Games and Learning Alliance
Subtitle of host publication	9th International Conference, GALA 2020, Proceedings
Editors	Iza Marfisi-Schottman, Francesco Bellotti, Ludovic Hamon, Roland Klemke
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	347-361
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-63464-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-63463-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_33
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	9th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2020 - Laval, France Duration: 9 Dec 2020 → 10 Dec 2020

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	12517
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	9th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2020
Country/Territory	France
City	Laval
Period	9/12/20 → 10/12/20

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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 finance
Future time perspective
Home retrofitting
Persuasive games
Serious games
Sustainability

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Dikken, O., Prakash, K., Roseboom, B., Rubio, A., Østvik, S., Bueno , M., Salamon, N. Z., & Bidarra, R. (2020). A Serious Game for Changing Mindsets About Loans for Home Retrofitting. In I. Marfisi-Schottman, F. Bellotti, L. Hamon, & R. Klemke (Eds.), Games and Learning Alliance : 9th International Conference, GALA 2020, Proceedings (pp. 347-361). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 12517 ). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_33

Dikken, Olivier ; Prakash, Kushal ; Roseboom, Bart ; Rubio, Ana ; Østvik, Sander ; Bueno , Maijael ; Salamon, Nestor Z. ; Bidarra, Rafael. / A Serious Game for Changing Mindsets About Loans for Home Retrofitting. Games and Learning Alliance : 9th International Conference, GALA 2020, Proceedings. editor / Iza Marfisi-Schottman ; Francesco Bellotti ; Ludovic Hamon ; Roland Klemke. Cham : Springer, 2020. pp. 347-361 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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A Serious Game for Changing Mindsets About Loans for Home Retrofitting. / Dikken, Olivier ; Prakash, Kushal ; Roseboom, Bart ; Rubio, Ana ; Østvik, Sander; Bueno , Maijael; Salamon, Nestor Z.; Bidarra, Rafael.

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Dikken O, Prakash K, Roseboom B, Rubio A, Østvik S, Bueno M et al. A Serious Game for Changing Mindsets About Loans for Home Retrofitting. In Marfisi-Schottman I, Bellotti F, Hamon L, Klemke R, editors, Games and Learning Alliance : 9th International Conference, GALA 2020, Proceedings. Cham: Springer. 2020. p. 347-361. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_33

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