Social Mpower: A Serious Game for Self-Organisation in Socio-technical Systems

Author

Bourazeri, Aikaterini ; Pitt, Jeremy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2014

fDate

8-12 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

199

Lastpage

200

Abstract

Smart grids for decentralised Community Energy Systems (dCES) can be simulated by Serious Games in which players use social networking and visualisation of Ostrom´s principles to achieve collective action. Social Mpower is an interactive game designed to inform, aware and motivate energy consumers towards energy efficiency. Emphasising on the concepts of collective awareness and self-organisation, players need to coordinate their individual actions for common good. Field trials and beta tests of the system show that integration and encapsulation of different requirements by a serious game can promote successful collective action in an energy community.

Keywords

groupware; power engineering computing; serious games (computing); smart power grids; social networking (online); Ostrom principle; Social Mpower; collective awareness; dCES; decentralised community energy system; energy community; energy efficiency; interactive game; self-organisation; serious game; smart grids; social networking; socio-technical system; Avatars; Communities; Encapsulation; Games; Smart grids; Social network services; Visualization; collective action; collective awareness; self-organisation; serious games; smart grids;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), 2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SASO.2014.43

Filename

7001026