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Personal profile
Biography
Larissa’s human-computer interaction research includes smart home, distributed electricity generation, and other digital technologies. Her applied research projects involve in-home ethnographic research to explore interactions between energy (technologies, usage, pricing, communications) and social, physical and financial wellbeing.
Larissa specialises in bringing deeper understandings of household practices and concerns into Australia’s ongoing policy debates about energy affordability, sustainability and reliability. The impacts of energy policy and emerging technologies for vulnerable and disadvantaged households are a key research focus. Her industry-relevant research supports consumer advocacy and energy organisation decision-making towards better outcomes for households.
Having worked extensively in the areas of home energy efficiency and energy demand management, Larissa is currently investigating how emerging digital technologies may impact future energy demand and infrastructures.
Larissa gained a PhD from University of Melbourne (Medicine) and a Bachelor of Arts/Science from Monash University.
Education/Academic qualification
Arts/Science, Bachelor Degree (Honours), MONASH UNIVERSITY
Medicine, PhD, University of Melbourne
Research area keywords
- energy futures
- Demand-side Mangement
- Smart home
- Smart grid
- Digital sociology
- Digital technologies
- emerging technologies
- disadvantaged and diversity
Network
Projects
- 1 Active
Research output
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Optimising the value of distributed energy resources
Blackhall, L., Kuiper, G., Nicholls, L. & Scott, P., Nov 2020, In : The Electricity Journal. 33, 9, 7 p., 106838.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Other › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Pursuing pleasance: interrogating energy-intensive visions for the smart home
Strengers, Y., Hazas, M., Nicholls, L., Kjeldskov, J. & Skov, M. B., Apr 2020, In : International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. 136, 14 p., 102379.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Social impacts and control in the smart home
Nicholls, L., Strengers, Y. & Sadowski, J., 21 Feb 2020, In : Nature Energy. 5, p. 180-182 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment / Debate › Other › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
Protection, productivity and pleasure in the smart home emerging expectations and gendered insights from Australian early adopters
Strengers, Y., Kennedy, J., Arcari, P., Nicholls, L. & Gregg, M., 2019, Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Cox, A. & Kostakos, V. (eds.). New York NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 13 p. 645Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Paper › Research › peer-review
13 Citations (Scopus) -
Aesthetic pleasures and gendered tech-work in the 21st-century smart home
Strengers, Y. & Nicholls, L., 2018, In : Media International Australia. 166, 1, p. 70-80 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
16 Citations (Scopus)
Press / Media
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The energy costs of staying at home
Kari Dahlgren, Jathan Sadowski, Yolande Strengers, Larissa Nicholls & Sarah Pink
21/08/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature