#3_NATCONSUMERS BRIEFING
From the household investigation posters everybody made, the finding is that there are many factors influencing the energy consumption and family behaviours. It was summarized in a simple scheme, showing us “actionnable” and “non-actionnable” facts by the users. For instance, the weather or buildings regulations aren’t actionnable in the context of the NATCONSUMERS project. It means that […]
documents lesson 1/12/2015
In the links below you can find what we discussed during the lesson. LCBE_151124 PresentationNATCONSUMER LCBE_EX2.1_SmartMeterListPrint
#2 _ IDENTIFYING FACTORS INFLUENCING RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSUMPTION
In order to gather opinions and data, we were all asked to visit a household, observe practices and discuss energy use . This was a chance to investigate behaviours in their own environment and establish what factors we could have an impact on. This is a reallyimportant step towards designing a user centered device that […]
#1 _ Sustainable development & energy meters…
The aim of the course of sustainable development is for us designers to develop a set of skills and an approach towards sustainability. We should ask questions when dealing with projects – inquiring in what new and better ways this could have been done in order to reduce the impact it has on the planet. […]
TALKING WITH MY ENERGY METER…
The course will be articulated this year around a series of application exercises focussing household behaviour change to reduce domestic energy consumption. These exercises called TALKING WITH MY ENERGY METER… will build on the outputs of the European H2020 research project NATCONSUMERS whose aim is to develop an advanced and integral user-centred framework for the […]