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Watt-I-See: A Tangible Visualization of Energy
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This paper describes a tangible visualization that explores the link
between the impact of energy feedback on household consumers
and the resource demand impact on energy production.
Specifically, it positions a novel perspective attempting to move
beyond the known limitations of current eco-feedback systems and
contributes to enhance our understanding of how consumers
comprehend energy production. The work is informed by a
comprehensive study of an installation that displays the ratio of
current power generation sources and the percentage of grid
renewables. The paper provides design insights for creating novel
eco-feedback visualizations that leverage the balance between user
lifestyles and the desire to influence consumption behaviors and
practices. Evaluation results show an increase in energy literacy
and awareness as well as identifies high consumer preferences
towards simple, representative interfaces and ubiquitous
immediate feedback. Our study shows potential in terms of future
scenarios for eco-feedback in distributed energy micro-generation
and other inevitable disruptive changes for the energy utility.
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Sustainability Eco-feedback Public installations Visualization User study . Faculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenharia
Citation
Quintal, F., Jorge, C., Nisi, V., & Nunes, N. (2016, June). Watt-i-see: A tangible visualization of energy. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (pp. 120-127).
Publisher
ACM