Pursuing pleasance: Interrogating energy-intensive visions for the smart home

Strengers, Yolande; Hazas, Mike; Nicholls, Larissa; Kjeldskov, Jesper; Skov, Mikael B.

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2019.102379

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“…Building size, footprint, and size of rooms contributed in relation to the number of people staying in the home. Papageorgiou et al 2020;Zhang, Bai, and Mills 2020;Namazkhan, Albers, and Steg 2020;Strengers et al 2020 Despite abundant research papers on residential buildings' energy characteristics, exploratory studies in situational-based research remain limited. The situation that developed in India from the COVID-19 outbreak, February 2020 to May 2020, provides an excellent case study to examine usage when a highly infectious epidemic is present and the entire country is placed in lockdown.…”

Section: Behavioral Factors (Bf)mentioning

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Analyzing energy consumption factors during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak: a case study of residential society

Qarnain

2020

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmenta

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The global pandemic of COVID-19 has affected most countries and has impacted every household's operations. Mandatory stay-at-home lockdowns have forced building residents to use more energy for their daily routine activities, giving rise to higher energy usage. The increased energy use by building residents results in high energy bills and leads to a scarcity in the energy supply. Identifying factors that can control the high energy consumption in buildings can be used to optimize energy consumption and act as energy conservation factors. This proposed research is conducted to identify and explore the most influential energy consumption factors amid COVID-19 pandemic in residential buildings using a case study in India. To analyze the energy consumption factors, a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodology based Best Worst Method (BWM) and a Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) methodology have been integrated. The results show that among 34 comprehensive energy consumption factors, the high priority topmost 50% of the factors were analyzed. The main research outcome indicates that 53% of the factors were in the cause group and the remaining 47% were in the effect group factors. Research results conclude that in response to COVID-19, social distancing, home quarantine, and home transformation were the primary factors for energy consumption in homes. Among the sub-factors, the lockdown of streets, shutdown of public markets, and psychological factors were the top three factors adding to increased energy consumption. Further, Industrial and economic importance of the research is also discussed.

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Analyzing energy consumption factors during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak: a case study of residential society

Qarnain

2020

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmenta

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“…However, it is important that design fiction and speculative design continue to diversify and problematise visions of future everyday life. As Strengers et al identify, the currently dominant vision centralises on "pleasance", which works to "orient everyday life towards a version of contemporary hedonism or technological utopianism featuring networked and automated devices pervading all facets of the home" (Strengers et al 2020). It is important for the design community to remain aware of the powerful interests at play in promoting this vision, the undesirable effects for both users and society it may bring about and the fact that it is not the only possible future of everyday life.…”

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“…Sin embargo, es importante que el diseño ficción y el diseño especulativo sigan diversificando y problematizando las visiones de la vida cotidiana futura. Tal como observan Strengers et al, la visión dominante actual se centra en el "placer", que "orienta la vida cotidiana hacia una versión del hedonismo o utopismo tecnológico contemporáneos en el que dispositivos conectados y automáticos inundan todas las facetas del hogar" (Strengers et al 2020). Es importante que quienes se dedican al diseño sean conscientes de los poderosos intereses que hay en juego si se fomenta esta visión, de los efectos indeseables que podría comportar para los usuarios y para la sociedad, y de que no es el único futuro posible de la vida cotidiana.…”

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Democratising and Anticipating Everyday Futures Through Critical Design: A Review of Exemplars

Kuijer

2020

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This article explores design’s relation with the future by analysing a collection of exemplars from design fiction and speculative design for their potential to democratise and anticipate visions of future everyday life in design. Future visions – both implicit and explicit ones – have a realising power of their own. This is especially true for design, the products of which co-shape the lives of millions of users. Rather than calling for a “better” future vision however, this paper draws on research from the social sciences and futures studies to argue for the importance of diversifying and enriching visions of future everyday life within design. Critical design is well equipped to contribute to this objective because it questions the status quo and is relatable and actionable for designers. The paper reviews exemplars from critical design for their potential to democratise and anticipate future everyday life. To analyse their ways of engaging with future everyday life, the exemplars are positioned in the future cone model of probable, possible and preferred futures. Through this positioning, a distinction emerged between two forms of critical future engagement: alternative fictions and extrapolative fictions. Alternative fictions are explicitly positioned outside of generally expected futures, while extrapolative fictions are explicitly positioned within them. Both have their own strengths and limitations for democratising and anticipating future everyday life. Alternative fictions enrol actors as “future people” and create scenes to depict future contexts, but can also include deployments in present day contexts to explore alternative human-artefact relations. Alternative fictions tend to be accompanied by alternative design practices. Extrapolative fictions do not include deployments and rarely propose alternative design practices, but they can play an important role in highlighting the underexposed risks of mainstream design pursuits. Critical design can and should play a role in democratising and anticipating future everyday life. Alternative and extrapolative fictions can complement each other in this pursuit. Extrapolative fictions question the status quo from within and use the power of design to highlight underexposed aspects of expected futures. Alternative fictions question the status quo from without and use the power of design to creatively generate different objects that can be used to flesh out alternative ways of living and their related context. Further research is needed into how critical fictions are best integrated into mainstream design practices.

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“…In [32], a study is shown with the main concerns of users who use SMS. In turn, [28] shows a study on visions on the energy issue for smart homes that share the same concept with SMS.…”

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Towards human-computer interaction on smart metering systems

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New technologies associated with the fourth industrial revolution are transforming the world in which we live, and the power grid is no exception since it has been provided with intelligence. One of its best-known applications is smart metering systems that allow real-time energy consumption/production to be known, as well as other benefits such as outages and reconnections automatically. The new generations of smart meters have more computing capacity allowing new applications. This work shows some considerations in the design of smart meters using human-computer interaction techniques. The results aim to improve the end-user’s experience and satisfaction and can help to mitigate the reluctance to use smart metering systems in Mexico.;

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Pursuing pleasance: Interrogating energy-intensive visions for the smart home

Cited by 46 publications

References 50 publications

Analyzing energy consumption factors during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak: a case study of residential society

Analyzing energy consumption factors during coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak: a case study of residential society

Democratising and Anticipating Everyday Futures Through Critical Design: A Review of Exemplars

Towards human-computer interaction on smart metering systems

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