Invasion of the Energy Monsters: A Family Board Game about Energy
Consumption
Late-Breaking Works: Games & Playful Interaction
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Banerjee, Amartya
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Horn, Michael S.
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Davis, Pryce
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.1828-1834
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: 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.