Investigating the impact of a minimalist in-home energy consumption display Export

@inproceedings{Yun09, abstract = {We investigated the impact of a minimal in-home Energy Consumption Display (ECD), both stationary and portable versions, on household energy awareness and consumption. We deployed the ECD in eight homes for three weeks each, providing half of the participants with a portable version and the others with a stationary one. This work presents an account of each user's experience through pre- and post-surveys, power meter data, and post-deployment interviews and results of the study, which show that users reduced energy consumption by identifying high-power devices in their home and by playfully setting conservation goals.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Yun, Tae J.}, booktitle = {CHI EA '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {5249841}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1520340.1520676}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520676}, doi = {10.1145/1520340.1520676}, isbn = {978-1-60558-247-4}, keywords = {consumption, energy, interface, persuasive, saving}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {4417--4422}, posted-at = {2009-07-24 11:47:28}, priority = {0}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Investigating the impact of a minimalist in-home energy consumption display}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520676}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - Yun09 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5249841 N2 - We investigated the impact of a minimal in-home Energy Consumption Display (ECD), both stationary and portable versions, on household energy awareness and consumption. We deployed the ECD in eight homes for three weeks each, providing half of the participants with a portable version and the others with a stationary one. This work presents an account of each user's experience through pre- and post-surveys, power meter data, and post-deployment interviews and results of the study, which show that users reduced energy consumption by identifying high-power devices in their home and by playfully setting conservation goals. CY - Boston, MA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-247-4 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 4422 TI - Investigating the impact of a minimalist in-home energy consumption display PB - ACM T2 - CHI EA '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems SP - 4417 KW - consumption KW - energy KW - interface KW - persuasive KW - saving AU - Yun, Tae PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520676 ER -