Lumen: A Case Study of Designing for Sustainable Energy Communities through Ambient Feedback

Anders Høgh Hansen; Rikke Hagensby Jensen; Lasse Stausgaard Jensen; Emil Kongsgaard Guldager; Andreas Winkel Sigsgaard; Frederik Dalgaard Moroder; Dimitrios Raptis; Laurynas Siksnys; Torben Bach Pedersen; Mikael B. Skov

doi:10.1145/3441000.3441001

Lumen: A Case Study of Designing for Sustainable Energy Communities through Ambient Feedback

Anders Høgh Hansen, Rikke Hagensby Jensen^*, Lasse Stausgaard Jensen, Emil Kongsgaard Guldager, Andreas Winkel Sigsgaard, Frederik Dalgaard Moroder, Dimitrios Raptis, Laurynas Siksnys, Torben Bach Pedersen, Mikael B. Skov

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Abstract

Within sustainable HCI research, we see a growing interest to study how designing interactive technology can improve the utilisation of renewable energy resources. In this case study, we explore the concept of energy communities and how technology can be designed to support people to cooperate around transitioning to a more sustainable use of electricity. To do so, we designed the Lumen prototype, which aims to support a small energy community in shifting domestic energy-consuming practices to align with times of high availability of sustainable energy. By creating awareness of current and future sustainable energy availability through an ambient feedback display, the Lumen prototype informs households about the community’s consumption patterns. To obtain insights into how people understand and experience an energy community, we conducted a qualitative field study with three Danish households. Through our study, we found sustainable awareness and incentives materialised in the ambient display were amplified by the dynamics of the community. We conclude by discussing future directions for exploring how to design technology for energy communities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction
Number of pages	6
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Publication date	3 Dec 2020
Pages	724-729
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450389754
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441001
Publication status	Published - 3 Dec 2020
Event	32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - Virtual, Sidney, Australia Duration: 2 Dec 2020 → 4 Dec 2020 http://www.ozchi.org/2020/

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Conference	32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Location	Virtual
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sidney
Period	02/12/2020 → 04/12/2020
Internet address	http://www.ozchi.org/2020/

Keywords

Energy communities
ambient design
sustainable energy
SDG
case studies

UN SDGs

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Hansen, A. H., Jensen, R. H., Stausgaard Jensen, L., Guldager, E. K., Winkel Sigsgaard, A., Dalgaard Moroder, F., Raptis, D., Siksnys, L., Pedersen, T. B., & Skov, M. B. (2020). Lumen: A Case Study of Designing for Sustainable Energy Communities through Ambient Feedback. In Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction (pp. 724-729). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3441000.3441001

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Lumen: A Case Study of Designing for Sustainable Energy Communities through Ambient Feedback. / Hansen, Anders Høgh; Jensen, Rikke Hagensby; Stausgaard Jensen, Lasse et al.
Proceedings of the 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. p. 724-729.

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Lumen: A Case Study of Designing for Sustainable Energy Communities through Ambient Feedback

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