Smart metering demand management programs: challenging the comfort and cleanliness habitus of households

Yolande Strengers

doi:10.1145/1517744.1517747

Smart metering demand management programs: challenging the comfort and cleanliness habitus of households

Yolande Strengers

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Abstract

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concepts of habitus, field and capital, this paper outlines how smart metering demand management programs could be redesigned to bring together the competing fields of resource management and domestic life. Comfort and cleanliness expectations, which are ingrained in the habitus of householders and the field of domestic life, are often overlooked in demand management programs, which focus instead on making existing and evolving expectations more efficient. This paper draws on preliminary findings from qualitative research activities with householders who received consumption feedback through an in-home display, and/or variable price signals - both enabled by smart meters. The paper offers insights for designers of interactive demand management strategies about how to go beyond achieving efficiency benefits in the home in order to fundamentally change expectations and norms ingrained in the habitus.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction
Subtitle of host publication	Designing for Habitus and Habitat
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	9-16
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	0980306345, 9780980306347
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1517744.1517747
Publication status	Published - 2008
Externally published	Yes
Event	Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference 2008 - Cairns, Australia Duration: 8 Dec 2008 → 12 Dec 2008 Conference number: 20th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1517744 (Conference Proceedings)

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Conference	Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference 2008
Abbreviated title	OZCHI 2008
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Cairns
Period	8/12/08 → 12/12/08
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1517744 (Conference Proceedings)

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Context-awareness
Critical peak pricing
Demand management
Energy conservation
Environmental behaviour change
Ethnography
Habitus
Households
In-home displays
Interaction design
Smart meters
Social norms
User studies
Water conservation

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Strengers, Y 2008, Smart metering demand management programs: challenging the comfort and cleanliness habitus of households. in Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 9-16, Australian Computer Human Interaction Conference 2008, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 8/12/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1517744.1517747

Smart metering demand management programs: challenging the comfort and cleanliness habitus of households. / Strengers, Yolande.
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2008. p. 9-16.

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Smart metering demand management programs: challenging the comfort and cleanliness habitus of households

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