Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption
We present Invasion of the Energy Monsters, a board game that attempts to highlight the role of family practices in household energy consumption. While household energy management activities — such as controlling heating and cooling systems — tend to be adult centric, we believe that children and ad...
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| author | Banerjee, Amartya Horn, Michael S. Davis, Pryce |
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| description | We present Invasion of the Energy Monsters, a board game that attempts to highlight the role of family practices in household energy consumption. While household energy management activities — such as controlling heating and cooling systems — tend to be adult centric, we believe that children and adolescents have a meaningful role to play in helping their families move toward more sustainable ways of living. To that end, Energy Monsters has been designed to scaffold interactions between family members and encourage conversations about electricity consumption and waste. In this paper we provide an overview of our current design and a brief summary of results from our playtesting sessions with five families, and a description of versions that are under development. |
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| spelling | nottingham-461622020-05-04T17:52:43Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46162/ Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption Banerjee, Amartya Horn, Michael S. Davis, Pryce We present Invasion of the Energy Monsters, a board game that attempts to highlight the role of family practices in household energy consumption. While household energy management activities — such as controlling heating and cooling systems — tend to be adult centric, we believe that children and adolescents have a meaningful role to play in helping their families move toward more sustainable ways of living. To that end, Energy Monsters has been designed to scaffold interactions between family members and encourage conversations about electricity consumption and waste. In this paper we provide an overview of our current design and a brief summary of results from our playtesting sessions with five families, and a description of versions that are under development. 2016-05-07 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Banerjee, Amartya, Horn, Michael S. and Davis, Pryce (2016) Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption. In: 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016, 7-12 May 2016, San Jose, California, USA. Children; environmental sustainability; board games; tractionless practices; tangible interaction; cultural forms; design; learning http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2851581.2892507 |
| spellingShingle | Children; environmental sustainability; board games; tractionless practices; tangible interaction; cultural forms; design; learning Banerjee, Amartya Horn, Michael S. Davis, Pryce Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption |
| title | Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption |
| title_full | Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption |
| title_fullStr | Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption |
| title_full_unstemmed | Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption |
| title_short | Invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption |
| title_sort | invasion of the energy monsters: a family board game about energy consumption |
| topic | Children; environmental sustainability; board games; tractionless practices; tangible interaction; cultural forms; design; learning |
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