Waste No More: Gamification for Energy Efficient Behaviour at the Workplace

Energy wastage in public buildings amounts to an important and not fully addressed cost. The present study is focused on introducing gamification at the workplace, with the overall goal of reducing energy wastage during and past employees’ working hours. In the context of an EU Horizon 2020 project, a gamified app and supporting infrastructure will be deployed to assist and motivate employees of three large public organizations in different countries, in reducing energy wastage and adopting energy-efficient behaviour. We conducted semistructured interviews with selected representative employees, to harness important gamification-related insights and, thus, ensure that we will design and develop a gamification architecture and application which the employees will adopt.