Research and Design for Special Populations

Zeisel, John; Gifford, Robert; Martin, Mark; McCunn, Lindsay J.

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“…Traditionally, walkthrough tours have been recorded using interviews and questionnaires only (Foulds, Powell, & Seyfang, 2013;Powell, 2009). Videoing the participants using their PV controls enabled the researchers to analyse occupants behaviour when using their controls (Zeisel, 2016), identifying action possibility 'scripts' inherent in the PV meters and inverters, as decided by the provision actants, and what these 'scripts' afforded their occupants. This helped to understand how specific decisions made by provision actants influenced occupant interaction subsequently (Stevenson & Rijal, 2010), and what practical knowledge, skills, perceptions and problems occupants had when interacting with their PV controls in a real context (Pink & Leder Mackley, 2013;Spinney, 2009).…”

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Domestic photovoltaic systems: the governance of occupant use

Frances

Stevenson

2017

Building Research & Information

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Domestic photovoltaic systems: the governance of occupant use

Frances

Stevenson

2017

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A relational approach to understanding inhabitants’ engagement with Photovoltaic (PV) technology in homes

Frances

Stevenson

2019

Architectural Science Review

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Photovoltaic (PV) systems have been promoted in the UK housing sector as a key strategy for meeting carbon reduction commitments by offsetting the use of the non-renewable grid energy with renewable energy. However, inhabitants are not changing their routine energy consumption practices to take advantage of off-grid day time solar energy and, in some cases, even shifting practices away from the initial intentions underlying the technology. This means that necessary energy savings from new housing are not being achieved. In this paper, this is attributed to the variation in the provisioning of PV technology in new homes, as well as inhabitants' engagement with and know-how of PV technologies, subject to explicit rules and polices. The key contribution of this paper is to reveal how PV technologies and inhabitants interact within different socio-technological home contexts drawing on Practice theory and ethnographic methods applied to four cases within a case studyof housing development in England.

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Research and Design for Special Populations

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Domestic photovoltaic systems: the governance of occupant use

Domestic photovoltaic systems: the governance of occupant use

A relational approach to understanding inhabitants’ engagement with Photovoltaic (PV) technology in homes

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