Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation
DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design
Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design
Mapping the landscape of sustainable HCI
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Coffee maker patterns and the design of energy feedback artefacts
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Beyond energy monitors: interaction, energy, and emerging energy systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sustainably unpersuaded: how persuasion narrows our vision of sustainability
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enough power to move: dimensions for representing energy availability
MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring Sustainable Practices in Workplace Settings through Visualizing Electricity Consumption
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
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Increasing our knowledge of how design affects behaviour in the workplace has a large potential for reducing electricity consumption. This would be beneficial for the environment as well as for industry and society at large. In Western society energy use is hidden and for the great mass of consumers its consequences are poorly understood. In order to better understand how we can use design to increase awareness of electricity consumption in everyday life, we will discuss the design of Watt-Lite, a set of three oversized torches projecting real time energy statistics of a factory in the physical environments of its employees. The design of Watt-Lite is meant to explore ways of representing, understanding and interacting with electricity in industrial workspaces. We discuss three design inquiries and their implications for the design of Watt-Lite: the use of tangible statistics; exploratory interaction and transferred connotations.