Understanding the Limitations of Eco-feedback: A One-Year Long-Term Study

Pereira, Lucas; Quintal, Filipe; Barreto, Mary; Nunes, Nuno

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-39146-0_21

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“…However, one of the first attempts to quantify the effects of individual eco-feedback on energy-saving behaviors in a university building found that such feedback does not necessarily result in sustained long-term energy savings [99]. Individual eco-feedback has an immediate beneficial effect in the short term [100,101], but in the long term this energy-saving behavior might disappear. For instance, Buchanan et al in their study [102] observed reductions in energy consumption of only 2% and they warned of the possibility that in the long term this energy-saving behavior might disappear.…”

Section: Eco-feedbackmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Building Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency and Methods to Influence It: A Review of the State of the Art

2018

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Buildings consume a significant amount of energy, estimated at about one-third of total primary energy resources. Building energy efficiency has turned out to be a major issue in limiting the increasing energy demands of the sector. Literature shows that building user behavior can increase the efficiency of the energy used in the building and different strategies have been tested to address and support this issue. These strategies often combine the quantification of energy savings and qualitative interpretation of occupant behavior in order to foster energy efficiency. Strategies that influence building occupant behaviors include eco-feedback, social interaction, and gamification. This review paper presents a study conducted on the state of the art related to the impact of building user behavior on energy efficiency, in order to provide the research community with a better understanding and up-to-date knowledge of energy, comfort-related practices, and potential research opportunities. Achieving and maintaining energy-efficient behavior without decreasing the comfort of building occupants still represents a challenge, despite emerging technologies and strategies as well as general research progress made over the last decade. Conclusions highlight eco-feedback as an effective way to influence behavior, and gamification as a new opportunity to trigger behavioral change. The impact of user behavior is difficult to quantify for methodological reasons. Factors influencing human behavior are numerous and varied. Multi-disciplinary approaches are needed to provide new insights into the inner dynamic nature of occupant's energy behavior.

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Section: Eco-feedbackmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Building Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency and Methods to Influence It: A Review of the State of the Art

2018

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“…numerical consumption feedback) and ambient feedback (i.e. changing light color) (Maan et al 2011), or assessed whether eco-feedback gives rise to any significant increase or decrease in household energy consumption (Pereira et al 2013). Fischer (2008) reports that eco-feedback on energy consumption (electricity in particular) usually seems to work, leading to savings between 5 and 12%, but acknowledges that some studies This is the accepted manuscript of an article published in the Journal of Environmental Planning and Management.…”

Section: Focus On the User: Persuasive Technology And The Role Of Feementioning

confidence: 99%

Perspectives on quantifying and influencing household metabolism

Harder

Dombi

Peters

2016

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Household metabolism is a concept that is concerned with the analysis of stocks and flows of energy, matter, and information at the household scale. This paper starts by providing a brief overview of the concept of household metabolism. Rather than attempting an in-depth review and analysis of this field, the article subsequently maps the contributions and perspectives of a broad variety of research traditions that have an interface with the concept of household metabolism. Next, this paper highlights a number of controversial issues connected to household metabolism, and studies at the interface of household metabolism. Finally, this paper argues that the concept of household metabolism can provide valuable help in diagnosing misalignments between enacted system dynamics and expressed societal goals, and can help to design research that facilitates their alignment.

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“…Our search for studies that collected and presented disaggregated electricity information in households to answer particular research questions yielded 13 studies. Studies that appeared to collect and analyze these kind of data, but that did not lay out their data‐collection methods and analysis techniques—let alone their results—to the extent of those below were not included in this review . Of course, some of these studies, as more of their results are published, may be appropriate to include in future reviews of this kind.…”

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Research with disaggregated electricity end‐use data in households: review and recommendations

Rowlands

Reid

Parker

2014

WIREs Energy & Environment

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Changes in electricity systems mean that more detailed information about demand levels for particular energy services in the home are now available to energy researchers. Accordingly, it is useful to determine how these data might be best used by energy researchers. To advance this discussion, 13 studies that use intrusive load-monitoring techniques to generate, to present, and to make effective use of, disaggregated end-use electricity data from households are identified. These studies are placed within a broader literature context (including studies using non-intrusive load-monitoring techniques), are summarized briefly, and are cross-compared in order to delineate emerging issues. These issues are as follows: methodological challenges, including monitoring equipment performance and participant recruitment; ways to present the time-and space-specific nature of the end-use electricity data generated; advances with respect to end-use electricity models that can be built; appliance-specific insights; and future priorities for this kind of work, including energy conservation insights, relevant policy recommendations, and priority academic investigations. Finally, reflection upon these 13 studies, as well as the broader energy research agenda, generates a number of priority areas for work going forward: making effective use of additional data; broadening the focus to include electricity production and storage, as well as other energy, carbon, resource, and information flows; placing these data within broader social contexts and wider power system considerations; and encouraging effective use of these data to advance energy system sustainability, at both the household and community levels. of advanced sub-metering technologies (e.g., smart electrical panels and smart plugs) has facilitated the collection of more electricity end-use information. With this detailed information now more readily available (e.g., how much electricity was used by a refrigerator at different times of the day in a particular household), a whole new set of energy research questions can be investigated.The purpose of this article is to determine the impact of the availability of disaggregated (divided according to time-of-use) end-use electricity information from households upon energy research. The investigation unfolds in four parts. First, the area of study is elaborated both by identifying our focus as well as other contiguous areas of research-together, this forms the broader context. Second, key research articles that use fine-resolution (i.e., high frequency), disaggregated end-use electricity data in households are identified and briefly summarized. Third, these articles are compared with each other in order to delineate emerging themes. Fourth, reflection upon these themes and the potential to address policy debates is undertaken in order to sketch an agenda for energy researchers going forward. It is critical that recent advances in information and communication technologies (which enable the collection of these data) are accompanied...

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Understanding the Limitations of Eco-feedback: A One-Year Long-Term Study

Cited by 18 publications

References 15 publications

The Impact of Building Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency and Methods to Influence It: A Review of the State of the Art

The Impact of Building Occupant Behavior on Energy Efficiency and Methods to Influence It: A Review of the State of the Art

Perspectives on quantifying and influencing household metabolism

Research with disaggregated electricity end‐use data in households: review and recommendations

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