An image of electricity: Towards an understanding of how people perceive electricity

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6949 LNCS, Issue PART 4, 2011, Pages 100-117

  Chisik, Yoram ^a  

^a MADEIRA INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INSTITUTE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION LEVELS; CONSUMPTION RATES; ELECTRICAL DEVICES; ELECTRICAL INFRASTRUCTURE; MENTAL IMAGES; MENTAL MODEL; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOURS;

ELECTRICITY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 80052817078     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23768-3_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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