Designing for Persuasion: Toward Ambient Eco-Visualization for Awareness

Kim, Tanyoung; Hong, Hwajung; Magerko, Brian

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-13226-1_12

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“…However, sharing energy-consumption information with direct energy and/or environmental externality units has been shown to improve energy saving behaviors in the commercial sector [28,117,132,141]. In fact, commercial building occupants who are aware of their ecological consequences are more likely to improve their behaviors [142,143].…”

Section: Feedback Techniquesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Approaches for Sensing, Understanding, and Improving Occupancy-Related Energy-Use Behaviors in Commercial Buildings

2015

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Abstract:Buildings currently account for 30-40 percent of total global energy consumption. In particular, commercial buildings are responsible for about 12 percent of global energy use and 21 percent of the United States' energy use, and the energy demand of this sector continues to grow faster than other sectors. This increasing rate therefore raises a critical concern about improving the energy performance of commercial buildings. Recently, researchers have investigated ways in which understanding and improving occupants' energy-consuming behaviors could function as a cost-effective approach to decreasing commercial buildings' energy demands. The objective of this paper is to present a detailed, up-to-date review of various algorithms, models, and techniques employed in the pursuit of understanding and improving occupants' energy-use behaviors in commercial buildings. Previous related studies are introduced and three main approaches are identified: (1) monitoring occupant-specific energy consumption; (2) Simulating occupant energy consumption behavior; and (3) improving occupant energy consumption behavior. The first approach employs intrusive and non-intrusive load-monitoring techniques to estimate the energy use of individual occupants. The second approach models diverse characteristics related to occupants' energy-consuming behaviors in order to assess and predict such characteristics' impacts on the energy performance of commercial buildings; this approach mostly utilizes agent-based modeling techniques to simulate actions and interactions between occupants and their built environment. The third approach employs occupancy-focused interventions to change OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 8 10997 occupants' energy-use characteristics. Based on the detailed review of each approach, critical issues and current gaps in knowledge in the existing literature are discussed, and directions for future research opportunities in this field are provided.

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Section: Feedback Techniquesmentioning

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A Review of Approaches for Sensing, Understanding, and Improving Occupancy-Related Energy-Use Behaviors in Commercial Buildings

2015

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“…As the variation on the prototypes' representational fidelity and notification level proves to be inconclusive, future designs should be balanced following successful approaches elaborated (e.g. Kim, Hong, and Magerko 2010;Kuznetsov and Paulos 2010). Recently perspective, the study's results revealed different effective design strategies depending on the purpose of the educational initiative -from raising awareness, through confidence building, to the transfer of knowledge.…”

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confidence: 94%

It doesn’t matter, but: examining the impact of ambient learning displays on energy consumption and conservation at the workplace

Börner

Kalz

Specht

2014

Environmental Education Research

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This study reports an intervention to initiate environmental learning and facilitate pro-environmental behaviour. The purpose was to examine the impact of ambient learning displays on energy consumption and conservation at the workplace, more specifically the evaluation of learning outcome and behaviour change. Using a quasi-experimental design, the empirical study was conducted among employees working at a university campus. For the experimental treatments ambient learning display prototypes were varied on two design dimensions, namely representational fidelity and notification level. The results do not provide clear evidence that the design of the displays influences learning outcome or that the displays lead to pro-environmental behaviour change. Nevertheless the sole deployment of the display prototypes eased the comprehension of the information provided and lowered the need for additional information.Thus ambient learning displays provide a promising framework in the context of environmental learning and beyond.

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“…to persuade a person to undertake one clearly specified behavior in one clearly specified context. For example, Kim, Hong, and Magerko [16] discuss a comparative study of the effectiveness of two PC-based widget applications, each designed to give a visual metaphor for the energy consumption when the PC is on but not in use, thus persuading users to switch their PC off when not being used. Thus we have a clearly specified behavior -switch your PC off when you are not using it, in a clearly specified context; that is, the use of your PC.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Role of User Emotional Attachment in Driving the Engagement of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in Using a Smartphone App Designed to Develop Social and Life Skill Functioning

Mintz

2014

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. There has been, in the last ten years, a fast developing interest in the potential use of mobile technology in the classroom and in particular, in the use of such technology to support children with ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorders). The HANDS project developed a software application for mobile Smartphones based on the principles of persuasive technology design, which supports children with ASD with social and life skills functioning -areas of ability which tend to be impaired in this population. Issues with the application of a behaviorist approach to the complex social field of special educational needs are considered. An argument is made for the need for 'thick' persuasive applications which take account of such complexity including the role of mediating factors. Particular focus is given to qualitative results indicating that user emotional attachment is one such key factor.

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Designing for Persuasion: Toward Ambient Eco-Visualization for Awareness

Cited by 37 publications

References 10 publications

A Review of Approaches for Sensing, Understanding, and Improving Occupancy-Related Energy-Use Behaviors in Commercial Buildings

A Review of Approaches for Sensing, Understanding, and Improving Occupancy-Related Energy-Use Behaviors in Commercial Buildings

It doesn’t matter, but: examining the impact of ambient learning displays on energy consumption and conservation at the workplace

The Role of User Emotional Attachment in Driving the Engagement of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in Using a Smartphone App Designed to Develop Social and Life Skill Functioning

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