Carman Neustaedter
ABSTRACT
Energy consumption is a growing concern and it is important to inform families of their consumption and how they might reduce it. We conducted an interview study that focuses on the existing routines of families and how they currently understand their power and gas consumption based on standard utility bills. We also investigated how this understanding ties to their everyday activities as might be recorded on their calendars. This allowed us to assess calendars as an artifact for energy consumption awareness. Our results show that many people relate changes in energy consumption to high-level effects such as weather and temperature and not necessarily their own everyday activities. Events on calendars may aid this understanding but people do not currently record enough information on their calendars to make a strong tie. This suggests that if calendars are to be used as artifacts to aid energy consumption understanding, digital calendars need to provide support to include more energy-related information, including both activities and patterns of consumption.
- Abrahamse, W., Steg, L., Vlek, C., Rothengatter, T. A review of intervention studies aimed at household energy conservation, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 25(3), (2005).Google Scholar
Cross Ref
- Bartram, L., Rodgers, J., and Woodbury, R. Smart Homes or Smart Occupants? Supporting Aware Living in the Home, Proc. INTERACT, IFIP (2011), 52--64. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Bartram, L., Rodgers, J., Muise, K. Chasing the negawatt: visualization for Sustainable Living, IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, 30(3), 8--14 (2010). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Chetty, M., Bernheim Brush, A. J., Meyers, B. R., Johns, P., It's Not Easy Being Green: Understanding Home Computer Power Management, Proc. CHI, ACM Press (2009), 1033--1042. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Chetty, M., Tran, D., and Grinter, R. Getting to Green: Understanding Resource Consumption in the Home, Proc. Ubicomp, ACM Press (2008). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Desjardins, A. and Wakkary, R., How Children Represent Sustainability in the Home, Proc. IDC, ACM Press (2011), 37--45. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Fisher, C., Feedback on household electricity consumption: A tool for saving energy? Energy Efficiency, 1(1): 79--104, 2008.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Froehlich, J., Findlater, L., and Landay, J. The Design of Eco-Feedback Technology, Proc. CHI, ACM Press (2010). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Froehlich, J., Larson, E., Campbell, T., Haggerty, C., Fogarty, J., and Patel, S. HydroSense: Infrastruture-Mediated Single-Point Sensing of Whole-Home Water Activity, Proc. Ubicomp, ACM Press (2009). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Froehlich, J., Findlater, L., Ostergren, M., Ramanathan, S., Peterson, J., Wragg, I., Larson, E., Fu, F., Bai, M., Patel, S., and Landay, J., The Design and Evaluation of Prototype Eco-Feedback Displays for Fixture-Level Water Usage Data, Proc. CHI, ACM Press (2012). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Gustafasson, A. and Gyllensward, The Power-Aware Cord: Energy Awareness through Ambient Information Display, Proc. CHI, ACM Press (2005). Google ScholarDigital Library
- He, H., Greenberg, S., and Huang, E. One Size Does Not Fit All: Applying the Transtheoretical Model to Energy Feedback Technology Design, Proc. CHI, ACM Press (2010), 927--936. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Holmes, T. Eco-Visualization: Combining Art and Technology to Reduce Energy Consumption, Proc. Creativity & Cognition, ACM Press (2007), 153--162. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kempton, W., and Layne, L. The consumer's energy analysis environment, Energy Policy, 22(10), (1994).Google Scholar
- Kim, Y., Schmid, T., Charbiwala, Z., Srivastava, M. B. ViridiScope: Design and Implementation of a Fine-Grained Power Monitoring System for Homes, Proc. Ubicomp, ACM Press (2009), 245--254. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kincaid, C., Dupont, P., and Kaye, A. R., Electronic calendars in the office. ACM Transactions on Offices, ACM Press (1985), 89--102. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kelley, J. F. and Chapanis, A., How professional persons keep their calendars: Implications for computerization. Journal of Occupational Psychology. 55, (1982).Google Scholar
- Kjeldskov, J., Skov, M., Paay, J., and Pathmanathan, R., Using Mobile Phones to Support Sustainability: A Field Study of Residential Electricity Consumption, Proc. CHI, ACM Press (2012), 2347--2356. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Mankoff, J., Matthews, D., Fussell, S. R., Johnson Leveraging Social Networks to Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints, Proc. HICSS, (2007). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Neustaedter, C., Domestic Awareness and the Role of Family Calendars, PhD Dissertation, University of Calgary, Canada, (2007). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Neustaedter, C. and Brush, A. J., "LINC-ing" the Family: The Participatory Design of an Inkable Family Calendar, Proc. CHI, ACM Press (2006), 141--150. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Neustaedter, C., Brush, A. J., and Greenberg, S. A Digital Family Calendar in the Home: Lessons from Field Trials of LINC, Proc. Graphics Interface, ACM Press (2007). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Neustaedter, C., Brush, A. J., and Greenberg, S. The Calendar is Crucial: Coordination and Awareness through the Family Calendar, ToCHI, 16(1), ACM Press (2009). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Payne, S. J. Understanding Calendar Use, Journal of Human Computer Interaction, 8(2), 83--100. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Petersen, J. E., Shunturov, V., Janda, K., Platt, G., Weinberger, K. Dormitory residents reduce electricity consumption when exposed to real-time visual feedback and incentives, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 8(1), 16--33 (2007).Google ScholarCross Ref
- Pierce, J., Odom, W., and Blevis, E. Energy Aware Dwelling: A Critical Survey of Interaction Design for Eco-Visualizations, Proc. OzCHI, ACM Press (2008). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Plaisant, C., Bederson, B., Clamage, A., Hutchinson, H., and Druin, A. Shared Family Calendars: Promoting Symmetry and Accessibility, ToCHI, 13(3), ACM Press (2006). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Riche, Y., Dodge, J., and Metoyer, R. Studying Always-On Electricity Feedback in the Home, Proc. CHI, ACM Press (2010). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Rodgers, J. and Bartram, L. Exploring Ambient and Artistic Visualization for Residential Energy Use Feedback, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 17 (12), 2489--2497, (2011). Google ScholarDigital Library
- Strauss, A. and Corbin, J. Basics of Qualitative Research, 2nd Edition, Sage Publications (1998).Google Scholar
- Vale, B., & Vale, R. (2010). Domestic energy use, lifestyles and POE: past lessons for current problems. Building Research & Information, 38 (5), 578--588.Google Scholar
- Wegner, D., Raymond, P., and Erber, R. Transactive Memory in Close Relationships, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 61, No. 6, (1991), 923--929.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Woods, G., Newborough, M. Energy-use information transfer for intelligent homes: Enabling energy conservation with central and local displays, Energy and Buildings, 39, 495--503 (2007).Google ScholarCross Ref
- Steg, L. Promoting Household Energy Conservation. Energy Policy, 36, 4449--4453. Elsevier (2008).Google Scholar
- Weiss, M., Mattern, F., Graml, T., Staake, T., Fleisch, E., Handy Feedback: Connecting Smart Meters with Mobile Phones, Proc. Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, Article No. 15., ACM Press (2009). Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Everyday activities and energy consumption: how families understand the relationship
Recommendations
"LINC-ing" the family: the participatory design of an inkable family calendar
CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsFamilies must continually organize, plan, and stay aware of the activities of their households in order to coordinate everyday life. Despite having organization schemes, many people still feel overwhelmed when it comes to family coordination. To help ...
Management Review of Energy Consumption: The Energy Saving Opportunity in University Buildings
ICIBE '19: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Industrial and Business EngineeringThe building is identified as one of the largest electricity user. The reduction of energy consumption in the building sector has the considerable opportunity and the significant impact on the growth of energy demand, consequently, it would reduce the ...
The Empirical Analysis on the Status and Trend of Energy Consumption in Zhejiang
ICEE '12: Proceedings of the 2012 3rd International Conference on E-Business and E-Government - Volume 02The 12th Five-Year plan proposed to reduce energy consumption per Unit GDP by 16% as compared with 2010. Energy saving has become the important strategic task for economic development in China. The analysis on status of energy consumption is the basis ...
Comments