Everyday activities and energy consumption: How families understand the relationship

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1183-1192

  Neustaedter, Carman ^a   Bartram, Lyn ^a   Mah, Aaron ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Calendars; Energy consumption; Families

Indexed keywords

CALENDARS; FAMILIES; GAS CONSUMPTION; INTERVIEW STUDY; UTILITY BILLS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ENERGY UTILIZATION;

EID: 84877972510     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466153     Document Type: Conference Paper

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