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Evaluating Mobile Phones as Energy Consumption Feedback Devices
ISBN
978-3-642-29154-8
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2010-12-06
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Sénac, Patrick
Ott, Max
Seneviratne, Aruna
Abstract
With smart electricity meters being widely deployed, data on residential energy usage is increasingly becoming available. To make sensible use of these data, we investigated the suitability of mobile phones as an interface to provide feedback on overall and device-related energy consumption. Based on the results of a user survey, we implemented the most highly valued feedback features on an iPhone that communicates with a smart meter. In a follow-up user study, we evaluated how users perceive the experience of such energy consumption feedback and how they rate the importance of different functionalities. Our work confirms the suitability of energy feedback delivered on a mobile phone. It oulines that a clear and easy to explain use case scenario is key and that knowledge-increasing functionalities as well as those functionalities from which monetary savings can be directly implied are perceived as most important. To address technophobe users, action-guiding feedback that goes beyond displaying aggregated information is required
Language
English
Keywords
Advanced metering
energy conservation
feedback systems
behavioral change
energy use
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publisher place
Berlin
Start page
63
End page
77
Event Title
7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems
Event Location
Sydney, Australia
Event Date
06.-09.122010
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
72479