Generating visions: future workshops and metaphorical design
Design at work
Video Sketches: Exploring Pervasive Computing Interaction Designs
IEEE Pervasive Computing
User sketches: a quick, inexpensive, and effective way to elicit more reflective user feedback
Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: changing roles
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
On "Technomethodologyn";: foundational relationships between ethnomethodology and system design
Human-Computer Interaction
Microsketching: creating components of complex interactive products and systems
Proceedings of the seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
Contravision: exploring users' reactions to futuristic technology
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Mapping the landscape of sustainable HCI
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
How smart homes learn: the evolution of the networked home and household
UbiComp '07 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Agent-based homeostatic control for green energy in the smart grid
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
PreHeat: controlling home heating using occupancy prediction
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Putting the 'smarts' into the smart grid: a grand challenge for artificial intelligence
Communications of the ACM
Beyond energy monitors: interaction, energy, and emerging energy systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Envisioning ubiquitous computing
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
At home with agents: exploring attitudes towards future smart energy infrastructures
IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
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Energy systems researchers are proposing a broad range of future "smart" energy infrastructures to promote more efficient management of energy resources. This paper considers how consumers might relate to these future smart grids within the UK. To address this challenge we exploited a combination of demonstration and animated sketches to convey the nature of a future smart energy infrastructure based on software agents. Users' reactions suggested that although they felt an obligation to engage with energy issues, they were principally disinterested. Users showed a considerable lack of trust in energy companies raising a dilemma of design. While users might welcome agents to help in engaging with complex energy infrastructures, they had little faith in those that might provide them. This suggests the need to consider how to design software agents to enhance trust in these socio-economic settings.