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Placing information at home: using room context in domestic design

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Nico Castelli,

Gunnar Stevens,

Timo Jakobi,

Corinna OgonowskiAuthors Info & Claims

UbiComp '14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication

Pages 919 - 922

https://doi.org/10.1145/2638728.2641548

Published: 13 September 2014 Publication History

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Residential and commercial buildings are responsible for about 40% of the EU's total energy consumption [2]. With current consumption feedback systems, dwellers have the opportunity to get disaggregated real-time energy feedback about their consumption. However, there is often an absence of additional context information, so that the user is not able to derive energy efficient behavior from their energy data. Against this background, this study presents a concept, where indoor-positioning data on room level are used to contextualize energy data. This makes it possible to expend visualizations of current consumption feedback systems and develop new kind of user-interfaces that support everyday-activities.

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Placing information at home: using room context in domestic design
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UbiComp '14 Adjunct: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct Publication

September 2014

1409 pages

ISBN:9781450330473

DOI:10.1145/2638728

General Chairs:
AJ Brush
Microsoft Research
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Lancaster University, UK
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Julie Kientz
University of Washington
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James Scott
Microsoft Research, UK
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Junehwa Song
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), KR

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Mataloto BCalé DCarimo KFerreira JResende R(2021)3D IoT System for Environmental and Energy Consumption Monitoring SystemSustainability10.3390/su1303149513:3(1495)Online publication date: 1-Feb-2021
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Chen YGuo MShen JCao J(2016)A Graph-Based Method for Indoor Subarea Localization with Zero-Configuration2016 Intl IEEE Conferences on Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People, and Smart World Congress (UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SmartWorld)10.1109/UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP-SmartWorld.2016.0054(236-244)Online publication date: Jul-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP-SmartWorld.2016.0054

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