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Behaviour Change And Incentive Modelling For Water Saving: First Results From The Smarth2o Project, J. Novak, M. Melenhorst, I. Micheel, C. Pasini, P. Fraternali, A. E. Rizzoli Jul 2016

Behaviour Change And Incentive Modelling For Water Saving: First Results From The Smarth2o Project, J. Novak, M. Melenhorst, I. Micheel, C. Pasini, P. Fraternali, A. E. Rizzoli

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Stimulating users to save water is a challenge and an opportunity for water demand management. Existing ICT-based systems for behavioural change often do not consider the underlying behavioural determinants in a systematic way. This paper discusses the design of the behavioural change and incentive model for the SmartH2O system, combining smart meter data with consumption visualisation and gamified incentive mechanisms to stimulate water saving. We show how the design of such a system can be related to a holistic behavioural change model and how this systematic mapping can inform the design of an integrated incentive model combining different incentive types …