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Visualising the Invisible: Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality as Persuasive Technologies for Energy Feedback

David Fredericks, Alexander; Fan, Zhong; Woolley, Sandra I

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Alexander David Fredericks

Zhong Fan



Abstract

In the last fifteen years, the outlook for engaging direct energy feedback as a method of effectively curtailing domestic energy consumption has grown more pessimistic. Continuing studies and reviews suggest the impact of such techniques on consumers is much less than the minimum ten percent reduction originally hoped. Persuasive technology research has demonstrated multiple successes in promoting resource conserving behaviours however, including in energy consumption related topics. One of the main obstacles with energy feedback is that making use of electricity is an 'invisible' process and doesn't produce any visible feedback to the consumer. This paper suggests harnessing Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality as persuasive technologies to visualise the 'invisible' consumption of domestic activities and promote energy conserving behaviours. A literature section provides short reviews of relevant topics, providing the justification and motivation for conducting this research while an overview of a methodology focusing on a user-centered approach discusses how to incorporate effective consumer feedback into the development process of appropriate energy feedback visualisations. Initial implementation methods for the visualisations are discussed and future work building upon this paper is outlined.

Conference Name Symposia and Workshops on Ubiquitous, Autonomic and Trusted Computing, UIC-ATC
Conference Location Leicester, UK
Start Date Aug 19, 2019
End Date Aug 23, 2019
Acceptance Date Aug 10, 2019
Online Publication Date Apr 9, 2020
Publication Date Apr 9, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Series Title 2019 IEEE SmartWorld, Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing, Advanced & Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing & Communications, Cloud & Big Data Computing, Internet of People and Smart City Innovation (SmartWorld/SCALCOM/UIC/ATC/CBDCom/IOP/SCI)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartWorld-UIC-ATC-SCALCOM-IOP-SCI.2019.00225
Keywords Energy Feedback, Augmented and VirtualReality, Persuasive Technology, Smart Meter, In-Home Display
Publisher URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9060080

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