Persuading consumers to reduce their consumption of electricity in the home

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

Volumn 7822 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 204-215

  Smeaton, Alan F ^a   Doherty, Aiden R ^a,b  

^a DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA-READING; DOMESTIC ENERGY USE; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; REDUCTION IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION; SOCIAL DYNAMICS; USER INTERESTS;

DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; ENERGY UTILIZATION;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84875637321     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37157-8_25     Document Type: Conference Paper

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