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Experimental Evaluation of an Informational and Behavior Change Program to Increase Undergraduate Students’ Energy Co

Experimental Evaluation of an Informational and Behavior Change Program to Increase Undergraduate Students’ Energy Conservation. Marcie Desrochers , Hilary Mosher, Jonathan Agins , Sandeep Mitra ,   K . B. Lakshmanan The College at Brockport--SUNY. Why does energy use occur?.

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Experimental Evaluation of an Informational and Behavior Change Program to Increase Undergraduate Students’ Energy Co

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  1. Experimental Evaluation of an Informational and Behavior Change Program to Increase Undergraduate Students’ Energy Conservation Marcie Desrochers, Hilary Mosher, Jonathan Agins, SandeepMitra,   K. B. Lakshmanan The College at Brockport--SUNY

  2. Why does energy use occur?

  3. How can energy conservation be fostered?

  4. A Behavioral Analysis Antecedents -> Desired -> Consequences Behavior • Goals • Prompts/cues • Role Models • Knowledge • Attend to behavior • Evaluate behavior • Benefits vs. costs • Immediate vs. delayed • Informational feedback

  5. Antecedents -> Desired -> Consequences Behavior Self-Management Behaviors Behavioral Contract

  6. Example: Behavioral Contract 1. Goal: 2. Steps to change the environment to promote your behavior:  3. Monitoring your behavior: 4. Rewards for your behavior: 5. Steps to maintain commitment : 6. How will you evaluate effectiveness of program? Signature: Date: Cosigner: Date:

  7. Example of a Behavioral Contract Goal: Laptop should be unplugged at least 6x per week for at least 12 hours per week. Steps to change the environment to promote the behavior: I will use a sticky note on my door (to be changed every night) to remind me before I leave home. How will you monitor your behavior: Record duration turned off on graph. Consequences for the desired behavior: I will buy my favorite coffee when I make a week with 12 hours unplugged Consequences for the undesired behavior: If I forget to turn off, I will have to turn off for at least 1 hour when I get home.

  8. Experimental Procedure * Experimental Condition 44 Participants randomly assigned to condition 2 Baseline Assessments “How many time per day did you completely turn off and unplug your computer?” 3 Post-Treatment Assessments 4 Week Follow-up Control Condition

  9. Results * * t test between conditions for follow up t(42) = 2.13, p < 0.05 Desrochers, M.N., Mosher, H., Meehan, G. (2012). Self-management of pro-environmental behavior. In preparation.

  10. Results

  11. Problems with Self-Reports • Subjective • Delayed – 24 hours • CMS dependent (administered on ANGEL)

  12. PUMP (Power Usage Monitoring Program) • PUMP Imitates the functionality of a Wattmeter by recording the energy use of multiple devices simultaneously. • Provides an option to give the user feedback every time a device is powered down. • Data is saved in a central database, making it effortless to run studies on massive sets of data.

  13. PUMP (Power Usage Monitoring Program) • PUMP runs on every mobile platform, making dispersion both inexpensive and easy. • Every session of PUMP lasts exactly three days and has the option to lock users out of specific functionalities, making it an effective measuring tool for gathering data.

  14. Current Research Concurrent Validation of PUMP

  15. Questionnaire Procedure Recruiting participants Correlation app Giving instructions Correlation Watt meter Does app usage time & watt-o-meter time agree?

  16. Preliminary Results

  17. Summary: Behavior Change. . . .

  18. Acknowledgements • Student researchers • Faculty • Institutional support

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