@inproceedings{233bfbd2586d429cbec4b5469812b563,
title = "A Serious Game for Changing Mindsets About Loans for Home Retrofitting",
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{\textquoteright}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.",
keywords = "Energy finance, Future time perspective, Home retrofitting, Persuasive games, Serious games, Sustainability",
author = "Olivier Dikken and Kushal Prakash and Bart Roseboom and Ana Rubio and Sander {\O}stvik and Maijael Bueno and Salamon, {Nestor Z.} and Rafael Bidarra",
note = "Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository {\textquoteleft}You share, we take care!{\textquoteright} – 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.; 9th International Conference on Games and Learning Alliance, GALA 2020 ; Conference date: 09-12-2020 Through 10-12-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-63464-3_33",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-030-63463-6",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "347--361",
editor = "Iza Marfisi-Schottman and Francesco Bellotti and Ludovic Hamon and Roland Klemke",
booktitle = "Games and Learning Alliance",
}