Neighbourhood Wattch: Using Speculative Design to Explore Values Around Curtailment and Consent in Household Energy Interactions

Snow, Stephen; Khan, Awais Hameed; Glencross, Mashhuda; Horrocks, Neil

doi:10.1145/3411764.3445095

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“…Privacy and fear of profiling are evident considerations of households using smart energy technologies [25,31,35,47,49,54] -even if households are motivated to share data for various reasons [47]. Our findings demonstrate another, more local dimension of such privacy concerns, pertaining to neighbors.…”

Section: Privacy In Collective Shifting: Balancing Policing and Fairnessmentioning

confidence: 71%

Supporting Solar Energy Coordination among Communities

Panagiotidou

Costanza

Fell

et al. 2023

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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The transition to renewable energy is likely to require the creation of growing numbers of energy communities: collectives organized around shared, local renewable resources. Unlike individual households however, the requirements for such communities to share a resource and demand-shift their consumption are still unexplored. By deploying a custom sensor energy monitoring kit and data physicalization workshops with 17 households, we examine the factors that impact their coordination around the shared resource. We found that collective demand-shifting has an extended set of considerations including trade-offs related to privacy, flexibility and social cohesion which are core for navigating already delicate neighborly relations. We use these factors to propose design considerations for a digital system that can act as a mediator among households. Such a system should enable multiple levels of immediacy to account for people's routines, should have adjustable levels of privacy to balance policing and fairness and should be able to offload some of the mundane decision-making. This study moves beyond individual energy consumption behavior to help identify energy as a collective issue that demands collective action. Accordingly, our findings contribute to the development of a next generation of Ubicomp technologies that can support collective action for environmental sustainability.

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Section: Privacy In Collective Shifting: Balancing Policing and Fairnessmentioning

confidence: 71%

Supporting Solar Energy Coordination among Communities

Panagiotidou

Costanza

Fell

et al. 2023

Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.

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“…What we see instead is a substantial amount of speculative design (e.g. [8,15,42,81,92]). Often participatory, such design research is more experimental and possibility-oriented in nature and aims to expand the research community's horizon and encourage refection.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The methodological choices indicate this too: for research with a substantial human element, authors tend to integrate one or several qualitative methods in their study design, including the aforementioned ethnography, interviews (e.g. [81,82,90]) and workshops (e.g. [41,60,89]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…What we see in our corpus is that energy has remained a key theme (e.g. [60,76,81,89,90]), although the research approaches and contexts have changed, as described above. A subcluster of energy-related research explores the carbon footprint and, more generally, the (un)sustainability of digital technology.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Have We Taken On Too Much?: A Critical Review of the Sustainable HCI Landscape

Bremer

Knowles

Friday

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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By CHI 2022, ffteen years will have passed since the emergence of Sustainable HCI (SHCI), which now constitutes an important subfeld of HCI. In this paper, we draw on two SHCI corpora to ask: Has SHCI progressed? How has the feld responded to prominent critiques? Have we identifed and adopted constructive strategies for impacting environmental unsustainability? We further show the wide array of competencies SHCI researchers have been called to develop, and how this has been refected in subsequent work. Our analysis identifes signifcant shifts in the SHCI landscape, toward research that is diverse and holistic, but also away from eforts to address the urgent climate crisis. We posit that SHCI has tended to take on far more than it could reasonably expect to deliver, and propose 'Green Policy informatics' as a pathway that enables SHCI to leverage a more traditional HCI skillset in addressing climate change. CCS CONCEPTS• Social and professional topics → Sustainability; • Humancentered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI).

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“…In this landscape, design research is distinctively committed to challenging dominant techno-determinist ideas that present technologies (whether AI, 5G or blockchain) as the solution to environmental issues (Strangers et al, 2022). Through their projects, researchers have warned about how energy future discourses fail to address aspects of energy disruptions and unreliable access to electricity (Hasselqvist et al, 2022); others have questioned whether behavioural change strategies that seek to sensitise consumers to sustainable consumption can actually promote the desired change (Jensen et al, 2018;Snow et al, 2021); and some have raised concerns regarding the costs in terms of privacy that a transition towards a smart grid and smart products would entail (Snow et al, 2021;Desjardins et al, 2020;Pschetz et al, 2019).…”

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Debating (In)Justice of Energy Futures Through Design

Antognini,

Luce Lupetti

2024

Diid

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This article presents a design investigation of how to address social justice concerns in participatory activities when debating energy futures. As the climate crisis grows and technological progress exacerbates environmental issues, the design field is increasingly committed to understanding and mitigating the impact of new products in the world. This is resulting in a conscious redesign of products or in developing strategies to nudge sustainable behaviours. Yet little methodological work exists on how to address social concerns when designing in the context of energy transitions. This paper explores this gap by delineating an energy scenario of Switzerland in 2030, designing two fictional artefacts and a participatory toolkit, and then hosting a world café with twelve participants. The results provide insights into the value as well as the methodological challenges of designing for debating justice in energy futures.

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Neighbourhood Wattch: Using Speculative Design to Explore Values Around Curtailment and Consent in Household Energy Interactions

Cited by 14 publications

References 63 publications

Supporting Solar Energy Coordination among Communities

Supporting Solar Energy Coordination among Communities

Have We Taken On Too Much?: A Critical Review of the Sustainable HCI Landscape

Debating (In)Justice of Energy Futures Through Design

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