2134/14827 Becky Mallaband Becky Mallaband Victoria Haines Victoria Haines Val Mitchell Val Mitchell Exploring past home improvement experiences to develop future energy saving technologies Loughborough University 2014 Participatory methods Qualitative Domestic householders Multidisciplinary Energy saving Design Practice and Management not elsewhere classified 2014-06-12 08:53:53 Conference contribution https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/conference_contribution/Exploring_past_home_improvement_experiences_to_develop_future_energy_saving_technologies/9360647 This paper describes a participatory data collection tool designed for use within a multi-disciplinary energy research project. The tool was designed to encourage participants to narrate the story of their past home improvement experiences. The User Centred Designers within the team then used these stories to extract user requirements for use by engineering specialists within the project team