Deep conservation in urban India and its implications for the design of conservation technologies

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1969-1978

  Shrinivasan, Yedendra B ^a   Jain, Mohit ^a   Seetharam, Deva P ^a   Choudhary, Abhishek ^a   Huang, Elaine ^b   Dillahunt, Tawanna ^c   Mankoff, Jennifer ^c  

^a IBM RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Developing world; Energy; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES; DEVELOPING WORLD; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY STORAGES; ENERGY; FEEDBACK TECHNOLOGY; FUEL CONSERVATION; PRIMARY CONSUMERS; RESOURCE SHORTAGE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877993014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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