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An Augmented Reality Game for Energy Awareness

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Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2019)

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Energy efficiency requires a behavioral shift towards sustainable consumption. Such a change can be supported by persuasive IT applications, which employ a variety of stimuli to increase the energy literacy and awareness of consumers. We describe FunergyAR, an Augmented Reality digital game targeting children and their families. FunergyAR incorporates Computer Vision and Augmented Reality components within traditional game mechanics and can be used either in a standalone manner or together with Funergy, a card game designed for improving energy savvy behaviors in children.

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    The application is published at: http://funergy.ifmledit.org/funergy.

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Acknowledgements

This work is partially supported by the “enCOMPASS - Collaborative Recommendations and Adaptive Control for Personalised Energy Saving” project funded by the EU H2020 Programme, grant agreement no. 723059 and by the “PENNY - Psychological, social and financial barriers to energy efficiency” project funded by the EU H2020 Programme, grant agreement no. 723791.

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milan, Italy

    Piero Fraternali & Sergio Luis Herrera Gonzalez

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  1. Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece

    Dimitrios Tzovaras

  2. Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Thessaloniki, Greece

    Dimitrios Giakoumis

  3. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Markus Vincze

  4. Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece

    Antonis Argyros

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Fraternali, P., Gonzalez, S.L.H. (2019). An Augmented Reality Game for Energy Awareness. In: Tzovaras, D., Giakoumis, D., Vincze, M., Argyros, A. (eds) Computer Vision Systems. ICVS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11754. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34995-0_57

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