Look back before leaping forward: Four decades of domestic energy inquiry

IEEE Pervasive Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-19

  Hazas, Mike ^a   Friday, Adrian ^a   Scott, James ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

economics; energy aware systems; pervasive computing; psychology; sociology; theory and methods

Indexed keywords

ENERGY-AWARE SYSTEMS; PERVASIVE COMPUTING; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY; THEORY AND METHODS;

ECONOMICS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FEEDBACK; STATE FEEDBACK;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 78650879021     PISSN: 15361268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPRV.2010.89     Document Type: Article

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