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There has been renewal of interest in green technologies due to deteriorating global warming, which renders energy saving (ES) becoming increasingly important. By recognizing users‘ on-going activities in a smart home environment, we propose an interruptiblity-aware ES reminder system to facilitate behavioral changes for facilitating energy saving at home. This system provides an ES reminder (one kind of eco-feedback) in the event of an activity transition to avoid constantly disturbing user’s on-going activities, and the content of an ES reminder is composed using two kinds of information visualization via ambient displays to improve readability. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative evaluations, the system can help lead to pro-environmental behaviors in a more human-centric way.
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Lu, CH., Hsieh, HL., Tseng, KH., Yin, CH., Huang, SS. (2013). Facilitating Spontaneous Energy Saving in a Smart Home Using Interruptibility-Aware Reminders with Ecological and Abstract Information Visualization. In: Biswas, J., Kobayashi, H., Wong, L., Abdulrazak, B., Mokhtari, M. (eds) Inclusive Society: Health and Wellbeing in the Community, and Care at Home. ICOST 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7910. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39470-6_19
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