Abstract
Energy communities are emerging around Europe with a vision to transition the traditional centralised energy system to one where individual households can collaborate to become energy producers. Although the vision of energy communities is still in a formative stage, it seems members of such organisations will need digital technology to manage and organise renewable energy together. The design of eco-feedback designs appears as a digital means to create awareness of this need. Yet, until recently, eco-feedback has been designed to target the individual householder. The research presented in this paper aims to identify design characteristics of eco- feedback systems aimed at collaborative energy communities. We explore two different concept designs that are evaluated in a focus group session with prospective energy community members to establish design characteristics. The findings show that participants not only identified characteristics related to different eco-feedback design characters but also identified a set of properties related to the collaborative and social nature of the community.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies : Humanization of Digital Technologies 2023, C&T '23 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery |
Publication date | 29 May 2023 |
Pages | 203–214 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 979-8-4007-0758-2 |
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Publication status | Published - 29 May 2023 |
Event | The 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies – Humanization of Digital Technologies - Lathi, Finland Duration: 29 May 2023 → 2 Jun 2023 https://2023.comtech.community/ |
Conference
Conference | The 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies – Humanization of Digital Technologies |
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Country/Territory | Finland |
City | Lathi |
Period | 29/05/2023 → 02/06/2023 |
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Keywords
- Energy community
- eco-feedback
- concept-driven design
- character of things
- sustainability