Smart Energy Systems

Amft, Oliver; Medland, Richard; Foth, Marcus; Petkov, Petromil; Abreu, Joana; Pereira, Francisco C.; Johnson, Philip M.; Brewer, Robert S.; Pierce, James; Paulos, Eric

doi:10.1109/mprv.2011.10

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“…The typical users-in-control technique is eco-feedback [16,17], in which users are reminded of their resource use. Techniques on the product-in-control end, also known as smart design or intelligent design [18,19], involve automatically taking actions to ensure behavior changes, sometimes without user knowledge or consent. Other techniques including behavior steering or behavior enabling, in which users are encouraged by constraints or affordances embedded in a design [20] to behave in certain ways.…”

Section: Design For Sustainable Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

Bao

Hughes

Burnell

et al. 2018

Journal of Mechanical Design

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Emotional responses to a product can be critical in influencing how the product will be used. This study explores the emotions that arise from users' interaction with eco-feedback products, and investigates links between emotions and users' resource conservation behaviors. In-lab experiments were conducted with 68 participants of varying backgrounds. Each participant was shown sketches of four conceptual designs of eco-feedback products and reported how they would feel and behave in different scenarios using the products. Two styles of eco-feedback design, quantitative and figurative, were compared to each other and were compared to neutral designs, which had little or no feedback information. Results showed that taking resource conservation actions such as turning off lights was highly correlated with negative emotions toward wasting resources, such as guilt, upset, embarrassment, and annoyance. Users' evaluations of esthetics, usefulness, and overall quality of eco-feedback products, however, were highly correlated with positive emotions toward resource conservation, described as satisfied, proud, interested, and joyful. Figurative designs were observed to evoke much stronger emotions among younger participants than older ones. Ultimately, we hope our findings are useful to the designers of eco-feedback products.

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Section: Design For Sustainable Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

Bao

Hughes

Burnell

et al. 2018

Journal of Mechanical Design

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“…Although these techniques primarily seem suited for systems that try to steer user behavior, they enable the creation of automatic systems by exploiting the collected data in an intelligent way. Cardenas---Tamayo et al (2009) and Amft et al (2011) present a selection of pervasive computing applications for environmental sustainability [32] and smart energy systems [6].…”

Section: Pervasive Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Design for reduced resource consumption during the use phase of products

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Much work on sustainable design has focused on product manufacture/assembly and end of life. Gains in products' technical efficiency address the use phase, but how these products are used clearly affects resource consumption. There are two main approaches to design interventions to reduce resource consumption during product life. Firstly, interventions aim to change user behavior, through information and feedback, as well as physical product affordances abstracted from lead users to guide or steer users toward the desired behavior. Secondly, automatic adjustment of product systems performance levels based on personal user profiles and anticipated usage is implemented using artificial intelligence techniques.

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“…They include switching off lights when leaving the office vs. leaving them on (±2,500 and ±27,500 points after 5 and 60 minutes, respectively), not using electric lights while in the office (+30,000 points after 60 minutes), switching off electrical devices when leaving the office (±1,250 and ±13,750 points) or leaving them in standby (+1,000 and −1,500 points), and leaving on the radiator while opening the window (−5,000 points after 5 minutes). 1 In order to balance the game and to make cheating difficult, the same event can only occur again for the same player after a defined pause. Events that occur five minutes after the action can only occur once every 60 minutes.…”

Section: Game Designmentioning

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“…Like in this study, energy efficiency in office environments has generally concentrated on building automation (e.g., [3,1]) rather than on the possibility to reduce energy consumption through behavior change. However, in a study by Siero et al [16] feedback on energy consumption led to a reduced energy consumption at the workplace-in this case, industrial production units.…”

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Saving energy at work

Simon

Jahn

Al-Akkad

2012

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia

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Decreasing the energy consumption is an important goal for individuals and public or industrial institutions. Pervasive games have been used to teach people to save energy in private households. We present Climate Race, a pervasive game addressing office workers. In the user-centered design process, three main requirements were identified: unobtrusiveness, cooperative gameplay and privacy. The implemented prototype monitors energy consumption and relates it to the activities of the player by measuring corresponding behavior. It provides feedback through a game application. Participants in a pilot study judged the game to be generally appropriate for the workplace, and changes in motivation were reported. Explicitly requesting feedback was preferred over immediate notifications. Sensor measurements showed that energy-saving situations occurred more often during the study.

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Smart Energy Systems

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Investigating User Emotional Responses to Eco-Feedback Designs

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