TY - GEN
T1 - Design and evaluation of eco-feedback interfaces to support location-based services for individual energy awareness and conservation
AU - Shen, Yang Ting
AU - Chen, Po Chun
AU - Jeng, Tay Sheng
PY - 2013/7/31
Y1 - 2013/7/31
N2 - The Eco-feedback technology has widely applied to the energy conservation. Eco-feedback technology is usually represented as any kind of interactive device or interface targeted at revealing energy consumption in order to promote users' energy awareness and then trigger more ecologically responsible behaviors. In this paper, the primary goal is to help the individual user understand his comparative energy consumption through the Eco-feedback energy visualization. The energy information we provide is the comparison between the historical average energy consumption and the instant energy consumption. Based on the instant comparative energy consumption, the user can intuitively understand the current energy consumption is higher or lower than usualness. We develop the location-based individual energy consumption feedback system named EME (Energy MEter). Integrated with the concepts of historical comparison and incentives, three kinds of eco-feedback interface prototypes including the Dichotomy type, the Accumulation type, and the Numeral type are designed and deployed in practical fields. The user study both from quantitative and qualitative surveys is conducted in order to find out the potential interface which links user and energy consumption data better.
AB - The Eco-feedback technology has widely applied to the energy conservation. Eco-feedback technology is usually represented as any kind of interactive device or interface targeted at revealing energy consumption in order to promote users' energy awareness and then trigger more ecologically responsible behaviors. In this paper, the primary goal is to help the individual user understand his comparative energy consumption through the Eco-feedback energy visualization. The energy information we provide is the comparison between the historical average energy consumption and the instant energy consumption. Based on the instant comparative energy consumption, the user can intuitively understand the current energy consumption is higher or lower than usualness. We develop the location-based individual energy consumption feedback system named EME (Energy MEter). Integrated with the concepts of historical comparison and incentives, three kinds of eco-feedback interface prototypes including the Dichotomy type, the Accumulation type, and the Numeral type are designed and deployed in practical fields. The user study both from quantitative and qualitative surveys is conducted in order to find out the potential interface which links user and energy consumption data better.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-39342-6_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-39342-6_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84880653104
SN - 9783642393419
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 132
EP - 140
BT - Human-Computer Interaction
T2 - 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2013
Y2 - 21 July 2013 through 26 July 2013
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