Homeward Bound: Ecological Design of Domestic Information Systems

Wastell, David; Sauer, Jürgen; Schmeink, Claudia

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-87503-3_16

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“…But it is the experimenter that wears the motley. Better not to do experiments on people; perhaps, better to work with them, with users "as partners and coproducers of design knowledge, rather than passive guinea pigs" (Wastell et al, 2008). In that latter paper, I commented ironically that the current practice of design science, by aping the scientific method, was not itself following well-established precepts of effective design work, e.g.…”

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In Praise of Abundance: Why Individuals Matter in Design Science

Wastell¹

2013

Grand Successes and Failures in IT. Public and Private Sectors

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Abstract. The Platonic quest for universal principles dominates the mainstream of IS research, typically relegating individual differences to the error term as pet theories and derived hypotheses are put to the statistical test. In design science, this neglect of "particulars" is especially egregious as it wastes valuable information about individuals and their interactions with technology. I present a case study of the design of adaptive automation, which shows how critical such information can be when designing complex IT-based systems. The obsession with theory has gone too far, I conclude; it is time to fight back against the tyranny of universals.

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In Praise of Abundance: Why Individuals Matter in Design Science

Wastell¹

2013

Grand Successes and Failures in IT. Public and Private Sectors

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“…This paper has a clear relationship with IT and KEM because it uses data mining and machine learning as IT approaches and knowledge extraction and classification as KEM process. Wastell et al (2006) makes a microworld study of domestic information system design. This paper proposes a GUI Interface focuses on the design of domestic heating management systems, specifically on the feedback support required to achieve energy savings.…”

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Knowledge engineering and management contributions for scientific research in the thermal smart energy context

Preissler¹,

Gonçalves²

2017

Int J Recent Sci Res

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ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACTScientists and researchers have been increasingly studying and seeking alternatives to solve problems related to the power consumption, aiming at environmental conservation and financial savings. In this paper, Smart Energy (SE) is the term used to refer to energy studies in the areas of Smart Grids, Smart Cities, Smart Homes or Buildings. This paper has as a guiding question: how have the scientific studies in Knowledge Engineering and Management (KEM) area contributed to the SE area? The goal of this research is to present a systematic literature review of the scientific research on KEM area in SE context, particularly in thermal heating in Smart Building context, throughout the last 10 years. This systematic literature review, organized in a bibliometric study format uses syntax and content analysis and was conducted in eight stages of research in which were used three known and relevant scientific databases. The present study analyzed 61.662 papers in eight stages. The result was 18 papers strongly related to the scope of this research. The analyses point to a set of researches that mainly use the Elicitation, the Acquisition and the Knowledge Discovery as the most used KEM processes. From the point of view of the use of Information Technology (IT) approaches, it can be highlighted: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence algorithms and especially the proposition of their own algorithms. INTRODUCTIONDue to the high levels of CO 2 emissions and to the growth in power consumption it is becoming increasingly important to carry out scientific studies in order to reduce environmental impacts and to contribute to financial savings of final users. In this sense, some approaches and terminologies have been established in the areas of intelligent power consumption such as Smart Grids (SG), Smart Cities (SC), Smart Homes (SH) and Smart Buildings (SB).The term SG is related to the use of Information Technology applied to the management and operation of electrical networks. The term SC has many applications. One of them, in particular, it is the study of consumption and production of sustainable electricity. Finally, SH and SB have the same bias, although being distinct terms, both refer to the study of smart environments such as buildings or houses. The term "smart" is commonly used to equally describe the use of technological innovation and ITs for automation purposes and resource savings, Lund et al. (2012). Such areas of study have many points of convergence. In this study the term Smart Energy (SE), Preissler Junior (2015) is used to refer to research and development initiatives in the cited areas of study. Here, however, the terms are applied to research focusing on energy context. Furthermore, the Knowledge Engineering and Management is an interdisciplinary field which over the past 25 years has been using IT as a tool to "operationalize" the Knowledge Management (KM), Nonaka (2008), Rus and Lindvall (2002). Assuming that the term "smart" is related to the use of IT and considering that IT ...

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Homeward Bound: Ecological Design of Domestic Information Systems

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Cited by 2 publications

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In Praise of Abundance: Why Individuals Matter in Design Science

In Praise of Abundance: Why Individuals Matter in Design Science

Knowledge engineering and management contributions for scientific research in the thermal smart energy context

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