Identifying design opportunities for reduced household resource consumption: Exploring practices of thermal comfort

Journal of Design Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 67-85

  Kuijer, Lenneke ^a   De Jong, Annelise ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Cross cultural comparison; Design research; Historical analysis; Household resource consumption; Person heating; Practice exploration; Practice oriented design; Social practices; Space heating; Theories of practice; Thermal comfort; Trigger product study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859412448     PISSN: 17483050     EISSN: 15691551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/JDR.2012.046140     Document Type: Article

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