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Demo abstract: saving energy in smart commercial buildings through social gaming

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Energy consumption in commercial buildings is tremendous, resulting in significant monetary cost and waste of natural resources. Designing a low-cost system that serves the goal of saving energy while not forcing people to compromise their personal comfort is important for future smart commercial buildings. Proactive energy saving actions from users in the buildings are the key to achieving this goal. In this paper, we present Mahalo, an energy saving system, which leverages users through social gaming. By incentivizing energy saving actions from end users with a sensing-based feedback control system, the system reduces installation needs and improves understanding of the users preferences.

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Demo abstract: saving energy in smart commercial buildings through social gaming
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UbiComp '13 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication

September 2013

1608 pages

ISBN:9781450322157

DOI:10.1145/2494091

General Chairs:
Friedemann Mattern
ETH Zurich, CH
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Silvia Santini
TU Darmstadt, DE
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Program Chairs:
John F. Canny
UC Berkeley, US
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Marc Langheinrich
Università della Svizzera italiana, CH
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Jun Rekimoto
University of Tokyo, JP

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