WATTSBurning: Design and Evaluation of an Innovative Eco-Feedback System. Quintal, F., Pereira, L., Nunes, N., Nisi, V., & Barreto, M. In Kotzé, P., Marsden, G., Lindgaard, G., Wesson, J., & Winckler, M., editors, Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 453--470. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, January, 2013.
WATTSBurning: Design and Evaluation of an Innovative Eco-Feedback System [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
This paper reports a 15 weeks study of artistic eco-feedback deployed in six houses with an innovative sensing infrastructure and visualization strategy. The paper builds on previous work that showed a significant decrease in user awareness after a short period with a relapse in consumption. In this study we aimed to investigate if new forms of feedback could overcome this issue, maintaining the users awareness for longer periods of time. The study presented here aims at understanding if people are more aware of their energy consumption after the installation of a new, art inspired eco-feedback. The research question was then: does artistic eco-feedback provide an increased awareness over normal informative feedback? And does that awareness last longer? To answer this questions participants were interviewed and their consumption patterns analyzed. The main contribution of the paper is to advance our knowledge about the effectiveness of eco-feedback and provide guidelines for implementation of novel eco-feedback visualizations that overcome the relapse behavior pattern.
@incollection{ quintal_wattsburning:_2013,
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  title = {{WATTSBurning}: Design and Evaluation of an Innovative Eco-Feedback System},
  copyright = {©2013 {IFIP} International Federation for Information Processing},
  isbn = {978-3-642-40482-5, 978-3-642-40483-2},
  shorttitle = {{WATTSBurning}},
  url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-40483-2_32},
  abstract = {This paper reports a 15 weeks study of artistic eco-feedback deployed in six houses with an innovative sensing infrastructure and visualization strategy. The paper builds on previous work that showed a significant decrease in user awareness after a short period with a relapse in consumption. In this study we aimed to investigate if new forms of feedback could overcome this issue, maintaining the users awareness for longer periods of time. The study presented here aims at understanding if people are more aware of their energy consumption after the installation of a new, art inspired eco-feedback. The research question was then: does artistic eco-feedback provide an increased awareness over normal informative feedback? And does that awareness last longer? To answer this questions participants were interviewed and their consumption patterns analyzed. The main contribution of the paper is to advance our knowledge about the effectiveness of eco-feedback and provide guidelines for implementation of novel eco-feedback visualizations that overcome the relapse behavior pattern.},
  number = {8117},
  urldate = {2014-03-02TZ},
  booktitle = {Human-Computer Interaction – {INTERACT} 2013},
  publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
  author = {Quintal, Filipe and Pereira, Lucas and Nunes, Nuno and Nisi, Valentina and Barreto, Mary},
  editor = {Kotzé, Paula and Marsden, Gary and Lindgaard, Gitte and Wesson, Janet and Winckler, Marco},
  month = {January},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Computers and Education, Computers and Society, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Prototyping, Software Engineering, User Interfaces, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, eco-feedback, sustainability},
  pages = {453--470}
}

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