Understanding energy consumption at work: learning from arrow hill
Understanding energy consumption at work: learning from arrow hill
Most work around technological interventions for energy conservation to date has focussed on changing individual behaviour. Hence, there is limited understanding of communal settings, such as office environments, as sites for intervention. Even when energy consumption in the workplace has been considered, the emphasis has typically been on the individual. To address this gap, we conducted a study of energy consumption and management in one workplace, based on a combination of workshops with a broad range of stakeholders, and quantitative data inspections. We report and discuss findings from this study, in light of prior literature, and we present a set of implications for design and further research. In particular, three themes, and associated intervention opportunities, emerged from our data: (1) energy wastage related to "errors"; (2) the role of company policies and the negotiation that surrounds their implementation; and (3) the bigger energy picture of procurement, construction and travel.
energy, sustainability, error
Bedwell, Benjamin
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Costanza, Enrico
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Jewell, Michael
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February 2016
Bedwell, Benjamin
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Costanza, Enrico
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Jewell, Michael
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Bedwell, Benjamin, Costanza, Enrico and Jewell, Michael
(2016)
Understanding energy consumption at work: learning from arrow hill.
CSCW 2016: 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Francisco, United States.
27 Feb - 02 Mar 2016.
12 pp
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Abstract
Most work around technological interventions for energy conservation to date has focussed on changing individual behaviour. Hence, there is limited understanding of communal settings, such as office environments, as sites for intervention. Even when energy consumption in the workplace has been considered, the emphasis has typically been on the individual. To address this gap, we conducted a study of energy consumption and management in one workplace, based on a combination of workshops with a broad range of stakeholders, and quantitative data inspections. We report and discuss findings from this study, in light of prior literature, and we present a set of implications for design and further research. In particular, three themes, and associated intervention opportunities, emerged from our data: (1) energy wastage related to "errors"; (2) the role of company policies and the negotiation that surrounds their implementation; and (3) the bigger energy picture of procurement, construction and travel.
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Accepted/In Press date: 24 August 2015
Published date: February 2016
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CSCW 2016: 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, San Francisco, United States, 2016-02-27 - 2016-03-02
Keywords:
energy, sustainability, error
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Electronics & Computer Science
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Local EPrints ID: 381093
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/381093
PURE UUID: 551e6024-39b3-488a-8458-3f5ba13726d4
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Benjamin Bedwell
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Enrico Costanza
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Michael Jewell
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