Conversations with my washing machine: An in-the-wild study of demand shifting with self-generated energy

UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 459-470

  Bourgeois, Jacky ^a   Van Der Linden, Janet ^a   Kortuem, Gerd ^a   Price, Blaine A ^a   Rimmer, Christopher ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EON Technologies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domestic computing; Microgeneration; Sustainability; User studies

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WASHERS; WASHING; WASHING MACHINES;

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES; DOMESTIC COMPUTING; HEAT AND ELECTRICITY; HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITIES; MICROGENERATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR ENERGY; PROTOTYPE DEPLOYMENT; USER STUDY;

HEATING;

EID: 84908565967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2632048.2632106     Document Type: Conference Paper

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