Title: Energy awareness displays: motivating conservation at the workplace through feedback

Authors: Dirk Börner; Jeroen Storm; Marco Kalz; Marcus Specht

Addresses: Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, Postbus 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlands. ' Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, Postbus 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlands. ' Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, Postbus 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlands. ' Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies, Open Universiteit in the Netherlands, Postbus 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlands

Abstract: The paper presents a project that sets up to make energy consumption data visible and accessible to employees by providing dynamic situated consumption feedback at the workplace. Therefore a supporting infrastructure as well as two example applications have been implemented and evaluated. The resulting prototype fosters a ubiquitous learning process among the employees with the goal to change their consumption behaviour as well as the attitudes towards energy conservation. The paper presents the approach, the requirements, the infrastructure and applications, as well as the evaluation results of the conducted informative study, comparative study, user evaluation, and design study.

Keywords: energy conservation; ubiquitous learning; situational awareness; feedback; workplace; organisation; ambient displays; u-learning; energy consumption data; employee learning.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMLO.2012.050048

International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 2012 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.189 - 203

Published online: 23 Dec 2014 *

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