MyExperience: a system for in situ tracing and capturing of user feedback on mobile phones
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UbiGreen: investigating a mobile tool for tracking and supporting green transportation habits
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Using mobile phones to determine transportation modes
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
UpStream: motivating water conservation with low-cost water flow sensing and persuasive displays
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
The smart thermostat: using occupancy sensors to save energy in homes
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
Disaggregated End-Use Energy Sensing for the Smart Grid
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Home automation in the wild: challenges and opportunities
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PreHeat: controlling home heating using occupancy prediction
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Using mobile phones to support sustainability: a field study of residential electricity consumption
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Learning to be energy-wise: discriminative methods for load disaggregation
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Future Energy Systems: Where Energy, Computing and Communication Meet
An analysis of peak demand reductions due to elasticity of domestic appliances
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Future Energy Systems: Where Energy, Computing and Communication Meet
Sustainability does not begin with the individual
interactions
Accounting for energy-reliant services within everyday life at home
Pervasive'12 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Pervasive Computing
Long-term effects of ubiquitous surveillance in the home
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Investigating receptiveness to sensing and inference in the home using sensor proxies
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Understanding domestic energy consumption through interactive visualisation: a field study
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Detecting pedestrian flocks by fusion of multi-modal sensors in mobile phones
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
A longitudinal study of vibration-based water flow sensing
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
On heterogeneity in mobile sensing applications aiming at representative data collection
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM conference on Pervasive and ubiquitous computing adjunct publication
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We lack an understanding of human values, motivations and behavior in regards to new means for changing people's behavior towards more sustainable choices in their everyday life. Previous anthropological and sociological studies have identified these objects of study to be quite complex and to require new methods to be unfolded further. Especially behavior within the privacy of people's homes has proven challenging to uncover through the use of traditional qualitative and quantitative social scientific methods (e.g. interviews, participatory observations and questionnaires). Furthermore, many research experiments are attempting to motivate environmental improvements through feedback via, e.g., room displays, web pages or smart phones, based on (smart) metering of energy usage, or for saving energy by automatic control of, e.g., heating, lighting or appliances. However, existing evaluation methods are primarily unilateral by opting for either a quantitative or a qualitative method or for a simple combination and therefore do not provide detailed insight into the potentials and impacts of such solutions. This paper therefore proposes a combined quantitative and qualitative collective sensing and anthropologic investigation methodology we term Computational Environmental Ethnography, which provides quantitative sensing data that document behavior while facilitating qualitative investigations to link the data to explanations and ideas for further sensing. We propose this methodology to include the establishment of base lines, comparative experimental feedback, traceable sensor data with respect for different privacy levels, visualization of sensor data, qualitative explanations of recurrent and exceptional patterns in sensor data, taking place as part of an innovative process and in an iterative interplay among complementing disciplines, potentially including also partners from industry. Experiences from using the methodology in a zero-emission home setting, as well as an ongoing case investigating transportation habits are discussed.