Exploring past home improvement experiences to develop future energy saving technologies
conference contribution
posted on 2014-06-12, 08:53 authored by Becky Mallaband, Victoria HainesVictoria Haines, Val MitchellThis 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
Funding
The authors thank the funders of this research, RCUK and E.ON, as well as the participants, without whom the study would not have been possible.
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- Design
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ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Methods for Studying Technology in the Home Workshop, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Methods for Studying Technology in the Home Workshop,Pages
1 - 4 (4)Citation
MALLABAND, B., HAINES, V. and MITCHELL, V., 2013. Exploring past home improvement experiences to develop future energy saving technologies. IN: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Methods for Studying Technology in the Home Workshop, Paris, France, 27 April 27 – 3 May 2013, 4pp.Publisher
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Publication date
2013Notes
This is a conference paper.ISBN
978-1-4503-1952-2Language
- en
