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Householders as designers? Generating future energy services with United Kingdom home occupiers
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posted on 2020-05-27, 13:43 authored by Stuart CockbillStuart Cockbill, Val MitchellVal Mitchell, Andrew MayAndrew MayThe increasing adoption of smart meters and smart home technologies in domestic dwellings
affords new opportunities to collect data about householders’ everyday lives, including their
energy use. Current services designed to support householders in reducing their energy use
predominantly push ‘feedback’ at householders with limited effect. New services are needed
that better engage householders with their energy data and energy saving options in more
meaningful ways, and /or facilitate broader energy saving behaviours. After householders had
spent a year being immersed in their energy data, this study used a co-design approach with
householders, researchers, designers and building energy technologists to generate a set of
future energy-related services that would benefit householders. The results present 11 codesigned concepts for future services that support householders in making structural and
behavioural changes around energy use, alongside concepts that use energy data to impact
positively on future lifestyles. Opportunities, challenges and the implications for the design of
future energy services are then discussed. The article closes with reflections on the role of the
collaborative design approach used to generate these visions of the future.
Funding
REFIT: Personalised Retrofit Decision Support Tools for UK Homes using Smart Home Technology : EP/K002457/1
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Energy Research and Social ScienceVolume
69Publisher
ElsevierVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Energy Research and Social Science and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101615.Acceptance date
2020-05-21Publication date
2020-06-20Copyright date
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2214-6296Publisher version
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Dr Stuart Cockbill Deposit date: 22 May 2020Article number
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