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OCLC number
1032915146
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Author
Stein, Joshua.
Title
The Design of Home Energy-management Interfaces : Effects of Display Type on Thermostat Temperature Selection.
Degree
MAST -- University of Toronto, 2013
Publisher
Toronto : University of Toronto, 2013.
Description
1 online resource
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
This thesis explores home energy management (HEM), an emerging field for interface design and sustainability. Section 1 introduces HEM's broader context. In Section 2, I review the literature surrounding HEM. Section 3 outlines the usability study on the ecobee Smart Thermostat, to evaluate the technology's ease-of-use, and better understand users' experience with current HEM technology. Section 4 describes a "Critical Making" workshop, where participants investigated HEM through material interaction and discussion. Section 5 describes and evaluates the potential design spaces gleaned from previous sections. In Section 6, I return to the literature to investigate key concepts underlying the design intervention for the chosen design space. Section 7 describes my design intervention and experimental evaluation. In Section 8, I present the study results, which suggest enhanced display labelling had a significant and directional effect on user-selected temperatures. In Section 9, I discuss these results, study limitations, and make conclusions and recommendations.
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Subject
Human Factors.
Cognitive Engineering.
Interface Design.
Usability.
Sustainability.
Thermostats.
Energy.
Conservation.
Home Energy Management.
Feedback.
Programable Thermostat.
Critical Making.
Labelling.
Controls.
Thermal Comfort.
Mental Models.
Paper prototype.
Heating.
Behavior.
Demand-side.
Smart thermostat.
Energy Efficiency.
0546.