Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '10, 2010
Smart electricity meters and home displays are being installed in people's homes with the assumpt... more Smart electricity meters and home displays are being installed in people's homes with the assumption that households will make the necessary efforts to reduce their electricity consumption. However, present solutions do not sufficiently account for the social implications of design. There is a potential for greater savings if we can better understand how such designs affect behaviour. In this paper, we describe our design of an energy awareness artefact -the Energy AWARE Clock -and discuss it in relation to behavioural processes in the home. A user study is carried out to study the deployment of the prototype in real domestic contexts for three months. Results indicate that the Energy AWARE Clock played a significant role in drawing households' attention to their electricity use. It became a natural part of the household and conceptions of electricity became naturalized into informants' everyday language.
The artificial world is part of an ongoing negotiation of meaning, manifesting in social practice... more The artificial world is part of an ongoing negotiation of meaning, manifesting in social practice. From a sustainability perspective it is thus important to critically examine what norms are imprinted into the artificial, as well as to imagine, materialize and suggest artefacts that could afford more sustainable stories and practices to form. The project Sensing Energy is an attempt to explore how design could contribute to a re-imagination of everyday life and society, as well as what imaginaries (artefacts and related stories) could come out of such an endeavour. A critical and speculative design programme comprising the three leitmotifs Natureculture, Micro-sizing modernity, and Focal things and practices, provided a frame and foundation for a series of design experiments. The resulting artefacts were presented at two different workshops in which participants were asked to form stories that integrated one or more of the artefacts into their everyday life. Based on the material from the workshops we can conclude that the artefacts worked well as parts of, or catalysts, for new stories of the everyday. There are also indications that the design experiments have changed the 'horizon of expectations' for some of the participants.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems - DIS '10, 2010
Smart electricity meters and home displays are being installed in people's homes with the assumpt... more Smart electricity meters and home displays are being installed in people's homes with the assumption that households will make the necessary efforts to reduce their electricity consumption. However, present solutions do not sufficiently account for the social implications of design. There is a potential for greater savings if we can better understand how such designs affect behaviour. In this paper, we describe our design of an energy awareness artefact -the Energy AWARE Clock -and discuss it in relation to behavioural processes in the home. A user study is carried out to study the deployment of the prototype in real domestic contexts for three months. Results indicate that the Energy AWARE Clock played a significant role in drawing households' attention to their electricity use. It became a natural part of the household and conceptions of electricity became naturalized into informants' everyday language.
The artificial world is part of an ongoing negotiation of meaning, manifesting in social practice... more The artificial world is part of an ongoing negotiation of meaning, manifesting in social practice. From a sustainability perspective it is thus important to critically examine what norms are imprinted into the artificial, as well as to imagine, materialize and suggest artefacts that could afford more sustainable stories and practices to form. The project Sensing Energy is an attempt to explore how design could contribute to a re-imagination of everyday life and society, as well as what imaginaries (artefacts and related stories) could come out of such an endeavour. A critical and speculative design programme comprising the three leitmotifs Natureculture, Micro-sizing modernity, and Focal things and practices, provided a frame and foundation for a series of design experiments. The resulting artefacts were presented at two different workshops in which participants were asked to form stories that integrated one or more of the artefacts into their everyday life. Based on the material from the workshops we can conclude that the artefacts worked well as parts of, or catalysts, for new stories of the everyday. There are also indications that the design experiments have changed the 'horizon of expectations' for some of the participants.
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