That’s the smell of peacetime: Designing for electricity load balancing

Wessman, Stina; Olsen, Rebekah; Katzeff, Cecilia

doi:10.21606/nordes.2015.025

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“…Inspired by alternative design visions of minimalist technology use, sustainable resource use, and simple living [36,39,48,90], we turn to alternative ways of framing design to minimise smartphone use through a practice lens [49]. A practice-oriented perspective is advocated in HCI as a complementary and critical lens to understand the relationship between humans, computers and patterns of use [7,10,48,49,65,86].…”

Section: Designing For Reduced Smartphone Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…For this, we were inspired by work undertaken in the domain of sustainable HCI, which has focused on the sustainability implications of people consuming limited or problematic resources (e.g., water, electricity, food) embedded in everyday practices [36,47,65,86]. Sengers and others [36,39,48,90], for instance, have argued that reducing resource consumption through design should involve alternative design imaginations that go beyond supporting "good" and "bad" behaviours [10]. Our study shows such an alternative approach.…”

Section: Decoupling the Smartphone From Intimate Family Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design

Jensen,

Encinas,

Strengers

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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In response to research concerns that smartphone usage negatively impacts intimate relationships, this paper presents a study exploring how design can encourage smartphone accountability in family home settings. We developed and deployed three provotypes with seven families via a Research through Design study intended to encourage reflections on ubiquitous and routinised smartphone usage. The provotypes progressively explore ways of making smartphone use visible by facilitating individualised accountability, competitive accountability, and collective accountability. We present insights into how these provotypes shaped family practices based on a qualitative study with 26 participants. We found that, by emphasising different forms of shared accountability, the provotypes reduced smartphone use, which in turn fostered family intimacy and togetherness, rooted in meanings of caring and sharing. Finally, we discuss our study's implications for how provotypes can help explore forms of accountability in practices involving sustainable technology use within the home. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in interaction design; Field studies; Smartphones.

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Section: Designing For Reduced Smartphone Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Decoupling the Smartphone From Intimate Family Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design

Jensen,

Encinas,

Strengers

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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“…Eco-feedback refers to "technology that provides feedback on individual or group behaviors with a goal of reducing environmental impact" [16]. Within eco-feedback, several different modalities have been studied, for example, art and ambiance (e.g., [18,46]), physical materials (e.g., [18,44,62]), or lighting (e.g., [31,41]). More recently, HCI research has also complemented eco-feedback with concepts such as ecoforecasting (e.g., [27,33,45]) in realizing that an overview of past consumption might not be enough to help people plan and change their behavior.…”

Section: Domestic Energy Consumption In Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

Postphenomenological Dimensions of Digitally Mediated Domestic Heating

Svangren

Raptis

Ananjeva

et al. 2022

Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference

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Designing interactive technology to support and reduce domestic energy consumption has occupied HCI researchers for decades. This paper extends this body of HCI research by using postphenomenology as an analytical lens to understand how the digital energy assistant' Watts' mediates domestic district heating. We base our inquiry on empirical insights from a two-year study. We conducted informal meetings, focus groups with seven households before Watts' distribution, two rounds of semi-structured interviews with seven household representatives using Watts, and 304 questionnaire respondents. We illustrate findings in three postphenomenological dimensions -practical, ontological, and epistemological -showing a two-sidedness of technology-mediated domestic district heating. For instance, Watts enables some to reduce heating by magnifying certain new aspects of consumption, but also constrains others from doing the same by concealing the "raw" consumption data. Finally, we discuss four tensions of Watts mediation and how postphenomenology can complement HCI studies on domestic energy consumption. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI.

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“…In HCI, such design efforts tend to explore different visualisations of historic, real-time and predicted energy information materialised through various forms like mobile phones [43,82], ambient feedback [33,34,48,61,81], or through physical materials [73,78,102]. In this body of work, we also see studies aiming to design for shifting [71,74] on household-level [53,61,73,79] with some studies targeting shifting specific energy-consuming household practices like; washing [6,20,45], heating [14,15,19,44,76] and EV driving and charging [5,47,93].…”

Section: Related Work 21 Eco-feedback Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing Eco-Feedback Systems for Communities: Interrogating a Techno-solutionist Vision for Sustainable Communal Energy

Teli

Jensen

Gram

et al. 2021

C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities &Amp; Technologies - Wicked Problems in the Age Of

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The notion of establishing energy communities where householders collectively participate in using renewable energy is highly topical. In this paper, we interrogate a design vision of sustainable communal energy developed through a techno-solutionist narrative. The vision is exemplified in a recommendation-based mobile app, the Community Energy Planner app, that provides individual and collective energy feedback on renewable energy actions. To obtain insights into how householders understand and experience embedding such recommended communal energy feedback into domestic energy-consuming practices, we deployed the app with six households for one month. Through a qualitative study, we report on householders' experiences living with the app on an individual and at a community level. Our findings are presented in four themes, revealing that recommended feedback on individual and collective energy actions is challenging to align with the messiness of domestic life. Finally, we discuss alternative design visions for sustainable communal energy. The main contribution of this paper is twofold: 1) a field deployment study of a techno-solutionist narrative of communal energy facilitated through an app and, 2) a discussion on alternatives to this design vision. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Empirical studies in HCI.

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That’s the smell of peacetime: Designing for electricity load balancing

Cited by 7 publications

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Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design

Provotyping Accountability: Exploring Smartphone Use in the Home through Design

Postphenomenological Dimensions of Digitally Mediated Domestic Heating

Designing Eco-Feedback Systems for Communities: Interrogating a Techno-solutionist Vision for Sustainable Communal Energy

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