Authors:
Alessandro Aliberti
1
;
Christian Camarda
2
;
Valeria Ferro
2
;
Andrea Acquaviva
1
and
Edoardo Patti
1
Affiliations:
1
Politecnico di Torino, Italy
;
2
Midori s.r.l., Italy
Keyword(s):
Participatory Design, User-awareness, User-centered, Energy Aware, Smart Home, Smart Metering, Prosumer.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Energy and Economy
;
Energy Monitoring
;
Energy-Aware Systems and Technologies
;
Integration of Smart Appliances
;
Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services
;
Smart Cities
;
Smart Grids
;
Smart Homes (Domotics)
;
User-Centred and Participatory Design of Services and Systems for Smart Cities
Abstract:
It is generally recognized that our behaviours affect the environment. However, it is difficult to correlate behaviour of an individual person to large-scale problems. This is usually due to insufficient ergonomy of available tools. The main cause is that most of user-awareness tools available are technology-centered instead of user-centered. In this paper, we present a participatory design approach we followed to design and develop an energy-aware mobile application for user-awareness on energy consumption for Smart Home monitoring. To engage end-users from the early design stages, we conduct two on-line surveys and a focus group involving about 630 people. Results allowed on identifying functional requirements and guidelines for mobile app design. The purpose of this research is to increase user-awareness on energy consumption using tools and methods required by users themselves. Furthermore in this paper, we present the technological choices that drove our implementation of an ene
rgy-aware application based on prosumers’ requirements.
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