Users' conceptions of web security: a comparative study
CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The power-aware cord: energy awareness through ambient information display
CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 4th decennial conference on Critical computing: between sense and sensibility
Leveraging Social Networks To Motivate Individuals to Reduce their Ecological Footprints
HICSS '07 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
More than meets the eye: transforming the user experience of home network management
Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Designing interactive systems
Habit: the 95% of behavior marketers ignore
Habit: the 95% of behavior marketers ignore
Getting to green: understanding resource consumption in the home
UbiComp '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Energy aware dwelling: a critical survey of interaction design for eco-visualizations
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat
It's not easy being green: understanding home computer power management
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
It's not all about "Green": energy use in low-income communities
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Who's hogging the bandwidth: the consequences of revealing the invisible in the home
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Home, habits, and energy: examining domestic interactions and energy consumption
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The design of eco-feedback technology
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Wattsup?: motivating reductions in domestic energy consumption using social networks
Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
Teenagers talking about energy: using narrative methods to inform design
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Although an enormous amount of research effort has been devoted to understanding people's energy consumption habits, visualizing their consumption and finding ways of motivating them towards more sustainable behaviours we are still in the dark with regards to people's basic perception of electricity, their concept of what electricity is and their notion of the consumption rates of various electrical devices. In this study we have employed a sketching methodology to elicit people's basic mental image of what electricity is, how they conceive of the electrical infrastructure in their home and which devices they think represent the largest drain on their wallets. Preliminary analysis of the results show that people do not have a clear mental model of electricity and tend to associate the size of the device and the duration of use with higher rates of consumption regardless of the type of device, the type of use it is put to and its actual consumption level.