Living Labs: Successful user engagement on Energy-Efficiency through participatory innovation

Research carried out by De Montfort University, UK, has identified a link between user-involvement in design and development of energy-efficiency visualisation tools and their successful adoption. Combining a living lab approach to innovation with social media creates the possibility for user involv...

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Published inISPIM Conference Proceedings p. 1
Main Authors Batey, Matt, Bull, Richard, Decorme, Régis
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Manchester The International Society for Professional Innovation Management (ISPIM) 01.01.2013
Subjects
Automation
Business communications
Carbon
Digital economy
Emissions
End users
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy management
Environmental impact
Green buildings
Innovations
Neighborhoods
Participation
R&D
Research & development
Smartphones
Social networks
Software utilities
Studies
Systems development
Web 2.0
Europe
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Summary:Research carried out by De Montfort University, UK, has identified a link between user-involvement in design and development of energy-efficiency visualisation tools and their successful adoption. Combining a living lab approach to innovation with social media creates the possibility for user involvement in very large numbers, including city-scale communities. An analysis under the EU project IREEN (ICT Roadmap for Energy Efficiency Neighbourhoods), shows these findings to have significant implications for innovations in ICT for enabling energy-efficiency at the neighbourhood scale. It also contributes evidence in support of using ICT to enable users themselves to increase their energy efficiency rather than automating control away from the user, concluding that the former approach can achieve cost-effective, sustained savings that increased automation is unlikely to do.