Understanding the Limitations of Eco-feedback: A One-Year Long-Term Study
Understanding the Limitations of Eco-feedback: A One-Year Long-Term Study
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了解生态反馈的局限性：一项为期一年的长期研究
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2013
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N. Nunes
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Lucas Pereira;Filipe Quintal;Mary Barreto;N. Nunes
在过去的几十年里，世界目睹了家庭环境中能源消费习惯的变化，电力成为消费的主要能源。这些变化对我们生态系统的影响很难评估，因此鼓励来自不同领域的研究人员进行研究，以了解和改善有关家庭能源消耗的观念和行为。虽然其中几项研究报告在提高认识方面取得了成功，但大多数研究仅限于短期内，从而导致对户主长期行为的了解减少。在本文中，我们试图减少这一差距，提出了一个长期的研究家庭用电量。我们在52周内为12个家庭部署了实时非侵入式能源监测和生态反馈系统。结果显示，尽管随着时间的推移，与生态反馈系统的相互作用显着减少，但对电力消耗的认识有所提高。我们的结论是，在部署生态反馈一年后，不可能看到家庭消费的任何显着增加或减少。我们的研究结果还证实，消费与家庭规模和家庭收入水平等自变量密切相关。
For the last couple of decades the world has been witnessing a change in habits of energy consumption in domestic environments, with electricity emerging as the main source of energy consumed. The effects of these changes in our eco-system are hard to assess, therefore encouraging researchers from different fields to conduct studies with the goal of understanding and improving perceptions and behaviors regarding household energy consumption. While several of these studies report success in increasing awareness, most of them are limited to short periods of time, thus resulting in a reduced knowledge of how householders will behave in the long-term. In this paper we attempt to reduce this gap presenting a long-term study on household electricity consumption. We deployed a real-time non-intrusive energy monitoring and eco-feedback system in 12 families during 52 weeks. Results show an increased awareness regarding electricity consumption despite a significant decrease in interactions with the eco-feedback system over time. We conclude that after one year of deployment of eco-feedback it was not possible to see any significant increase or decrease in the household consumption. Our results also confirm that consumption is tightly coupled with independent variables like the household size and the income-level of the families.