The Dubuque Electricity Portal: Evaluation of a city-scale residential electricity consumption feedback system

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1203-1212

  Erickson, Thomas ^a   Li, Ming ^a   Kim, Younghun ^a   Deshpande, Ajay ^a   Sahu, Sambit ^a   Chao, Tian ^a   Sukaviriya, Piyawadee ^a   Naphade, Milind ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior change; Consumption feedback systems; ECF; Electricity; Smart meters; Social comparison; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; ECF; ELECTRICITY INFRASTRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; FEEDBACK SYSTEMS; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION; SOCIAL COMPARISON;

ELECTRICITY; FEEDBACK CONTROL; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SMART METERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84877941777     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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