Meet the meter: Visualising smartgrids using self-organising electronic institutions and serious games

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 6th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, SASOW 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 145-150

  Bourazeri, Aikaterini ^a   Pitt, Jeremy ^a   Almajano, Pablo ^b,c   Rodríguez, Inmaculada ^c   Lopez Sanchez, Maite ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Institutions; Self organisation; Serious Games; SmartGrids

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE FEEDBACKS; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; ELECTRONIC INSTITUTIONS; INFORMATION VISUALISATION; SELF-ORGANISATION; SERIOUS GAMES; SMARTGRIDS; USER ENGAGEMENT;

CYBERNETICS; SMART METERS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84877302306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SASOW.2012.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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