The Social Power Game: A smart application for sharing energy-saving behaviours in the city.

In this paper, we introduce Social Power Game, a mobile game application that aims at encouraging energy saving through social interaction. Instead of an individual energy analytic approach, this game incorporates social interaction and gamification as crucial principles for curbing energy consumption, fostering community collaboration and increasing people's intrinsic motivation. Based on an interdisciplinary research conducted in Switzerland, this paper describes motivations, design and interaction mechanisms for the application.