Persuading Consumers to Reduce Their Consumption of Electricity in the Home

Smeaton, Alan F.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-37157-8_25

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“…The recent studies of application of persuasive technology include the health domain (Halko and Kientz 2010;Looije et al 2010;Purpura et al 2011;Chittaro and Sioni 2012;Langrial and Oinas-Kukkonen 2012;Chiu et al 2014), environment domain (Kappel and Grechenig 2009;Midden and Ham 2009), leisure domain (Smeaton and Doherty 2013), and personal awareness domain (Chittaro and Zangrando 2010). Health domain is the most applied area of persuasive design according studies (OinasKukkonen and Harjumaa 2008;Wiafe and Nakata 2012).…”

Section: Application Of Persuasive Designmentioning

confidence: 97%

Effects of persuasive designed courseware on children with learning difficulties in learning Malay language subject

Ng¹,

Bakri

Rahman

2015

Educ Inf Technol

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The effects of courseware learning for children with learning difficulties have been studied over the years. Educational courseware is very common nowadays as a teaching tool for children's early education. However, most of the coursewares are designed for children with normal learning ability. Special children who face difficulty in the learning process are unable to utilize the courseware effectively due to their learning problems. This paper presents findings from a study that investigated the effects of persuasive designed mobile courseware on children with learning difficulties compared to traditional teaching method. Persuasive design aims to change their behaviour in using the courseware by attracting them to continuously utilize the courseware in the learning process. Various persuasive design principles are being implemented in the courseware. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of persuasive design implemented in the courseware towards children with learning difficulties. The subject focus in this study is Malay language subject which is the national language of Malaysia. This research aims to assist the educators and parents in teaching special children to improve their learning progress from time to time.

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Section: Application Of Persuasive Designmentioning

confidence: 97%

Effects of persuasive designed courseware on children with learning difficulties in learning Malay language subject

Ng¹,

Bakri

Rahman

2015

Educ Inf Technol

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“…In Mcmakin et al [2002], the authors discussed various nonfinancial incentives to motivate consumers to conserve energy usage. Recently, Smeaton and Doherty [2013] have argued for the use of social norms to incentivise behavior change in energy consumption.…”

Section: Rewardsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Wireless-Sensor-Network-Enabled Building Energy Management Systems

Kazmi

O’Grady

Delaney

et al. 2014

ACM Trans. Sen. Netw.

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Reducing energy consumption within buildings has been an active area of research in the past decade; more recently, there has been an increased influx of activity, motivated by a variety of issues including legislative, tax-related, as well as an increased awareness of energy-related issues. Energy usage both in commercial and residential buildings represents a significant portion of overall energy consumption; however, much of this may be categorized as waste, that is, energy usage that does not fulfil a definite purpose. In the past decade, the viability of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies has been demonstrated, leading to increased possibilities for novel services for building energy management. This development has resulted in numerous approaches being proposed for harnessing WSNs for energy management and conservation. This article surveys the state-of-the-art in building energy management systems. A generic architecture is proposed after which a detailed taxonomy of existing documented systems is presented. Gaps in the literature are highlighted and directions for future research identified.Additional Key Words and Phrases: Applications of sensor and actuator networks, energy management and control, modelling of systems and physical environments, sensor fusion and distributed inference, simulation tools and environments, building energy management systems, energy usage feedback and control ACM Reference Format:

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“…After the initial coalition formation is completed, the value of the coalition should be fairly distributed to the users. This idea of binding participants to form some social grouping was exploited on a much larger scale in a series of recent trials on 170,000 domestic energy consumers [23]. Two studies in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District of California and the Puget Sound area of Washington state provided feedback to customers on their home electricity and natural gas usage, with the novelty being the focus on peer comparisons.…”

Section: Techno-human Collective Systems In Smart Gridsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Novel Simulation Approaches for Smart Grids

Tsampasis

Sarakis²,

Leligou³

et al. 2016

JSAN

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Abstract:The complexity of the power grid, in conjunction with the ever increasing demand for electricity, creates the need for efficient analysis and control of the power system. The evolution of the legacy system towards the new smart grid intensifies this need due to the large number of sensors and actuators that must be monitored and controlled, the new types of distributed energy sources that need to be integrated and the new types of loads that must be supported. At the same time, integration of human-activity awareness into the smart grid is emerging and this will allow the system to monitor, share and manage information and actions on the business, as well as the real world. In this context, modeling and simulation is an invaluable tool for system behavior analysis, energy consumption estimation and future state prediction. In this paper, we review current smart grid simulators and approaches for building and user behavior modeling, and present a federated smart grid simulation framework, in which building, control and user behavior modeling and simulation are decoupled from power or network simulators and implemented as discrete components. This framework enables evaluation of the interactions between the communication infrastructure and the power system taking into account the human activities, which are at the focus of emerging energy-related applications that aim to shape user behavior. Validation of the key functionality of the proposed framework is also presented.

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Persuading Consumers to Reduce Their Consumption of Electricity in the Home

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

Effects of persuasive designed courseware on children with learning difficulties in learning Malay language subject

Effects of persuasive designed courseware on children with learning difficulties in learning Malay language subject

A Review of Wireless-Sensor-Network-Enabled Building Energy Management Systems

Novel Simulation Approaches for Smart Grids

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