Paper Info
Title
PORTS: an interdisciplinary and systemic approach to studying energy use in the home
Abstract
In this paper, we present an alternative and novel approach to identifying energy demand reduction opportunities in the home. Through the creation of detailed narratives informed by our interdisciplinary research team of social scientists, designers and engineers, we employ a systemic view of how energy is consumed in the home. By interrogating clusters of people, objects and resources through time and space as they come together within our qualitative and quantitative research, we have identified opportunities for sustainable HCI design. This paper outlines our approach and presents an example product concept in relation to laundry.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2638728.2641551
UbiComp Adjunct
Keywords
Field
DocType
design tools and techniques,design,domestic,user/machine systems,user interfaces,energy,sustainable hci,interdisciplinary research
Port (computer networking),Computer science,Knowledge management,Laundry,Narrative,Energy demand,Human–computer interaction
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Garrath T. Wilson160.97
Tracy Bhamra2221.61
Kerstin Leder Mackley3584.35
Sarah Pink4325.45
Val Mitchell58411.17