TY  - CONF
A1  - Heller, Florian
A1  - Borchers, Jan
T1  - PowerSocket: Towards on-outlet power consumption visualization
T2  - CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
N2  - Power consumption is measured in W and Wh, but what do these units mean? Water consumption can easily be understood, as we all know what a liter of water looks like. Common power meters, however, rely on the physical units or their translation to costs as display. We classified existing displays and ambient visualizations in a taxonomy that focuses on the characteristics of power consumption displays. We adapted representatives of the different categories of displays to an on-outlet display and compared these using a combination of soft- and hardware prototyping. Results indicate that ambient visualizations make it easier to understand power consumption.
KW  - sustainability
KW  - ambient displays
KW  - visualization
KW  - feedback
KW  - energy consumption
Y1  - 2011
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/12619
SN  - 978-1-4503-0268-5
N1  - CHI '11: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 7 - 12, 2011
SP  - 1981
EP  - 1986
PB  - ACM
CY  - New York, NY
ER  -