Abstract
This paper presents YouPower, an open source platform designed to make people more aware of their energy consumption and encourage sustainable consumption with local communities. The platform is designed iteratively in collaboration with users in the Swedish and Italian test sites of the project to improve the design and increase active user participation. The community-oriented design is composed of parts that link energy data to energy actions, provide comparisons at different levels, generate dynamic time-of-use signals, offer energy conservation suggestions, and support social sharing. The goal is to bridge people's attitude-behavior gap in energy consumption and to facilitate the behavior change process towards sustainable energy consumption that is implementable in people's daily life. Preliminary results show that community-oriented energy intervention has the potential to improve user engagement significantly.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE 14th International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2017 |
Publisher | IEEE |
Pages | 1-6 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509044283 |
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Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Event | 14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2017 - Calabria, Italy Duration: 16 May 2017 → 18 May 2017 Conference number: 14 |
Conference
Conference | 14th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, ICNSC 2017 |
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Abbreviated title | ICNSC 2017 |
Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Calabria |
Period | 16/05/17 → 18/05/17 |