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Using Virtual Choreographies to Identify Office Users’ Behaviour-Change Priorities with Greater Impact Potential on Energy Consumption

Fernando Cassola
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Leonel Morgado
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António Coelho
,
Hugo Paredes
,
António Barbosa
,
Helga Tavares
,
Filipe Soares
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Version 1 : Received: 26 April 2022 / Approved: 28 April 2022 / Online: 28 April 2022 (08:55:28 CEST)

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Cassola, F.; Morgado, L.; Coelho, A.; Paredes, H.; Barbosa, A.; Tavares, H.; Soares, F. Using Virtual Choreographies to Identify Office Users’ Behaviors to Target Behavior Change Based on Their Potential to Impact Energy Consumption. Energies 2022, 15, 4354. Cassola, F.; Morgado, L.; Coelho, A.; Paredes, H.; Barbosa, A.; Tavares, H.; Soares, F. Using Virtual Choreographies to Identify Office Users’ Behaviors to Target Behavior Change Based on Their Potential to Impact Energy Consumption. Energies 2022, 15, 4354.

Abstract

Reducing office buildings’ energy consumption can contribute significantly towards carbon reduction commitments since it represents 10% of total energy consumption. Major components are lighting (40% of consumption), electrical equipment (35%), and heating and central cooling systems (25\%). Occupants’ behaviours impact these energy consumption components, with solid evidence on the role of individual behaviours. In this work, we propose a methodology that uses virtual choreographies to identify and prioritize behaviour-change interventions towards office users based on the potential impact on energy consumption. The data shows that some behaviours with significant consumption have little potential for behavioural change impact, while other behaviours hold substantial potential for lowering energy consumption via behavioural change.

Keywords

Virtual Choreograhies; Behaviour-change; Energy consumption; Human-behaviour representation

Subject

Engineering, Energy and Fuel Technology

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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