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Understanding the limitations of eco-feedback: a one-year long-term study
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For the last couple of decades the world has been witnessing a
change in habits of energy consumption in domestic environments, with elec tricity emerging as the main source of energy consumed. The effects of these
changes in our eco-system are hard to assess, therefore encouraging researchers
from different fields to conduct studies with the goal of understanding and im proving perceptions and behaviors regarding household energy consumption.
While several of these studies report success in increasing awareness, most of
them are limited to short periods of time, thus resulting in a reduced knowledge
of how householders will behave in the long-term. In this paper we attempt to
reduce this gap presenting a long-term study on household electricity consump tion. We deployed a real-time non-intrusive energy monitoring and eco feedback system in 12 families during 52 weeks. Results show an increased
awareness regarding electricity consumption despite a significant decrease in
interactions with the eco-feedback system over time. We conclude that after one
year of deployment of eco-feedback it was not possible to see any significant
increase or decrease in the household consumption. Our results also confirm
that consumption is tightly coupled with independent variables like the house hold size and the income-level of the families.
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Eco-feedback Electric energy consumption Sustainability . Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Gestão
Citation
Pereira, L., Quintal, F., Barreto, M., & Nunes, N. J. (2013, July). Understanding the limitations of eco-feedback: a one-year long-term study. In International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Complex, Unstructured, Big Data (pp. 237-255). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39146-0_21
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Springer