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Communicative buildings for reduced energy consumption

Research project
Active research
Project period
2021 - 2024
Project owner
The Department of Psychology
Research partners
Tornet Fastighetsutveckling
AB
AFRY
AB
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
AB
Financier
Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten)
Area
Sustainability and
environment
Science and Information
Technology
Topic
Applied
Psychology
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary

Short description

The project’s aim is to combine research in behavioural science with modern technology on digital platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) in order to explore effects of nudging on energy use in the building sector.

Through a mobile app, residents are encouraged to make environmentally friendly choices, primarily in order to decrease their energy consumption. In a first phase of the project, the mobile app is developed. In a second phase, the app is tested among residents in selected buildings and possible changes in energy consumption and other environmentally related behaviours are measured. 

Research group

Our research
Decision making, Environmental psychology and Economic psychology
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