Facilitating Spontaneous Energy Saving in a Smart Home Using Interruptibility-Aware Reminders with Ecological and Abstract Information Visualization

There has been renewal of interest in green technologies due to deteriorating global warming, which renders energy saving (ES) becoming increasingly important. By recognizing users‘ on-going activities in a smart home environment, we propose an interruptiblity-aware ES reminder system to facilitate behavioral changes for facilitating energy saving at home. This system provides an ES reminder (one kind of eco-feedback) in the event of an activity transition to avoid constantly disturbing user’s on-going activities, and the content of an ES reminder is composed using two kinds of information visualization via ambient displays to improve readability. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative evaluations, the system can help lead to pro-environmental behaviors in a more human-centric way.

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