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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 May
The 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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School

  • Design and Creative Arts

Department

  • Design

Published in

Energy Research and Social Science

Volume

69

Publisher

Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Rights holder

© Elsevier Ltd

Publisher statement

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

2020-05-21

Publication date

2020-06-20

Copyright date

2020

ISSN

2214-6296

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Stuart Cockbill Deposit date: 22 May 2020

Article number

101615

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