Design of an appliance level eco-feedback display for domestic electricity consumption

Jeni Paay, Jesper Kjeldskov, Mikael B. Skov, Dennis Lund, Tue Madsen, Michael Nielsen

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Abstract

Over the past decade there has been an increased focus on eco-feedback systems for electricity consumption due to emerging technologies that allow detailed and real-time usage data to be collected and presented to users. In this paper, we present the design of an always-on ecofeedback display, PowerViz, that provides information about people's power usage in their homes at an appliance level. In our study, we found that PowerViz increased awareness towards energy consumption, gave householders a better understanding of high consumption devices and made it easy for them to isolate and respond to unnecessary or "greedy" appliances by turning them off or changing their use patterns. We also found that an ambient display of the household's total current electricity use both informed and attracted people to use the system when power usage became unusually high.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2014
EditorsToni Robertson, Kenton O'Hara, Greg Wadley, Lian Loke, Tuck Leong
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages332-341
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450306539
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
EventAustralian Computer Human Interaction Conference 2014 - University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Duration: 2 Dec 20145 Dec 2014
Conference number: 26th
http://www.ozchi.org/ozchi2014/
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/2686612 (Proceedings)

Conference

ConferenceAustralian Computer Human Interaction Conference 2014
Abbreviated titleOZCHI 2014
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period2/12/145/12/14
Internet address

Keywords

  • Always-on display
  • Design
  • Eco-feedback
  • Electricity
  • Situated display
  • Sustainability
  • Technology probe

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