PowerSocket: Towards on-outlet power consumption visualization
- 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.
| Author: | Florian HellerORCiD, Jan Borchers |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979901 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4503-0268-5 |
| Parent Title (English): | CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems |
| Publisher: | ACM |
| Place of publication: | New York, NY |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2011 |
| Tag: | ambient displays; energy consumption; feedback; sustainability; visualization |
| First Page: | 1981 |
| Last Page: | 1986 |
| Note: | CHI '11: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 7 - 12, 2011 |
| Link: | https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979901 |
| Zugriffsart: | campus |
| Institutes: | FH Aachen / Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik |
| collections: | Verlag / ACM |
