Improving user comfort and office energy efficiency with POEM (personal office energy monitor)

Milenković, Milan; Hanebutte, Ulf R.; Huang, Yonghong; Prendergast, David; Pham, Han

doi:10.1145/2468356.2468616

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“…Milenkovic et al have demonstrated that, as a result, staff typically feel low levels of control over their personal comfort [27]. Smart heating systems have been explored in recent ubicomp research.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Understanding Energy Consumption at Work

Bedwell

Costanza

Jewell

2016

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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Most work around technological interventions for energy conservation to date has focussed on changing individual behaviour. Hence, there is limited understanding of communal settings, such as office environments, as sites for intervention. Even when energy consumption in the workplace has been considered, the emphasis has typically been on the individual. To address this gap, we conducted a study of energy consumption and management in one workplace, based on a combination of workshops with a broad range of stakeholders, and quantitative data inspections. We report and discuss findings from this study, in light of prior literature, and we present a set of implications for design and further research. In particular, three themes, and associated intervention opportunities, emerged from our data: (1) energy wastage related to "errors"; (2) the role of company policies and the negotiation that surrounds their implementation; and (3) the bigger energy picture of procurement, construction and travel.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding Energy Consumption at Work

Bedwell

Costanza

Jewell

2016

Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work &Amp; Social Computing

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“…Heating accounts for a significant proportion of workplace energy costs -between 20-40% in office-based organizations [5] -and is linked to the comfort of staff. Milenkovic et al have demonstrated that -using traditional heating controls -staff typically feel low levels of control over their personal comfort, and have developed POEM -a smart alternative [26]. Other smart solutions have been proposed [19,12], and research suggests that pursuing personal comfort may reduce collective energy consumption [7], but such proposals are complicated to implement and as yet have little hard evidence to demonstrate impact.…”

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'A bit like British Weather, I suppose'

Costanza

Bedwell

Jewell

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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In this paper we present the design and evaluation of the Temperature Calendar -a visualization of temperature variation within a workplace over the course of the past week. This highlights deviation from organizational temperature policy, and aims to bring staff "into the loop" of understanding and managing heating, and so reduce energy waste. The display was deployed for three weeks in five public libraries. Analysis of interaction logs, questionnaires and interviews shows that staff used the displays to understand heating in their buildings, and took action reflecting this new understanding. Bringing together our results, we discuss design implications for workplace displays, and an analysis of carbon emissions generated in constructing and operating our design. More in general, the findings helped us to reflect on the role of policy on energy consumption, and the potential for the HCI community to engage with its application, as well as its definition or modification.

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“…For example, smiley faces that get grumpy the more power used, power gauges that move from green zones to red zones of the dial if the power use goes above the average, and graphical comparisons of current use against local use or personal pre-set goals. POEM (Personal Office Energy Monitor) (Milenkovic et al, 2013) is a general application that runs on desktop computers. It provides personalized data on electricity usage for a workplace.…”

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“…For example, a pragmatic visualization of electricity consumption could be a graph that displays kilowatt-hours used over time (e.g. Froehlich et al, 2012;Kjeldskov et al, 2012;Milenkovic et al, 2013;Schwarz et al, 2013). Alternatively, Kim et al (2009) use an artistic representation of power consumption in their system, Coralog, which displays a coral reef that changes colour and condition according to electricity usage.…”

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Design of an appliance level eco-feedback display for domestic electricity consumption

Paay

Kjeldskov

Skov

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference on Designing Futures: The Future of Design

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Over the past decade there has been an increased focus on eco-feedback systems for electricity consumption due to emerging technologies that allow detailed and real-time usage data to be collected and presented to users. In this paper, we present the design of an always-on ecofeedback display, PowerViz, that provides information about people's power usage in their homes at an appliance level. In our study, we found that PowerViz increased awareness towards energy consumption, gave householders a better understanding of high consumption devices and made it easy for them to isolate and respond to unnecessary or "greedy" appliances by turning them off or changing their use patterns. We also found that an ambient display of the household's total current electricity use both informed and attracted people to use the system when power usage became unusually high.

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Improving user comfort and office energy efficiency with POEM (personal office energy monitor)

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

Understanding Energy Consumption at Work

Understanding Energy Consumption at Work

'A bit like British Weather, I suppose'

Design of an appliance level eco-feedback display for domestic electricity consumption

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