EMPOWER

Empower的使命是将创造性的、以用户为中心的同理心设计技术与真正新颖的产品设计创新相结合。目前的问题是：(I)用户对许多现有能源控制和反馈界面的乏味、实用和非用户友好的设计感到脱节，这可能会影响他们对能源效率的全面解脱；(Ii)用户没有意识到他们的决策与能源使用之间的联系；(Iii)设计者对用户在能源使用方面的行为缺乏足够的了解。Empower的工作包将从对用户与能源和决策过程的互动的人种学工作场所研究开始，并深入到详细的用户洞察和用户的心理模型。这些见解将为工作场所内与用户和利益相关者举行的一系列高度迭代和新颖的参与式设计研讨会奠定基础。研讨会的成果将推动产品开发进程。最终结果将是一个创新的用户驱动的能效产品，该产品可以在项目结束后进行商业开发。该项目得到了More Associates的碳文化行为变化交付和研究平台以及与能源和气候变化部的持续合作的支持。

EMPOWER's mission is to integrate creative, empathic user-centred design techniques with genuinely novel product design innovation. The current problems are:(i) users feel disengaged with the bland, utilitarian, and non-user friendly design of many existing energy control and feedback interfaces which could impact upon their general disengagement with energy efficiency; (ii) users are not aware of the connections between their decisions and energy use; (iii) designers do not know enough about user behaviour in the context of energy usage There is a gap in the market for novel and exciting beautifully designed, high-end energy control and feedback interfaces. EMPOWER's work packages will begin with ethnographic workplace studies of users' interactions with energy and decision making processes, and drill down into detailed user insights and users' mental models. These insights will underpin a series of highly iterative and novel participatory design workshops within workplaces, with users and stakeholders. The outcomes of the workshops will drive the product development process. The final outcome will be an innovative user-driven energy efficiency product, which can be commercially exploited beyond the end of the project. The project is supported by More Associates' CarbonCulture behaviour-change delivery and research platform and an ongoing collaboration with the Department of Energy and Climate Change.