Cultivating energy literacy-results from a longitudinal living lab study of a home energy management system

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1193-1202

  Schwartz, Tobias ^a   Denef, Sebastian ^a   Stevens, Gunnar ^b   Ramirez, Leonardo ^a   Wulf, Volker ^a,b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FIT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy literacy; Energy monitoring; HEMS

Indexed keywords

CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; ECO FEEDBACKS; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; ENERGY LITERACY; ENERGY MONITORING; HEMS; HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; LIVING LAB;

ENERGY UTILIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE DEVICES; RESEARCH;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84877999779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466154     Document Type: Conference Paper

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