EMPOWER

EMPOWER的使命是将创造性的、以用户为中心的设计技术与真正新颖的产品设计创新相结合。当前的问题是：（i）用户感觉脱离了许多现有的能量控制和反馈界面的乏味的、功利的和非用户友好的设计，这可能影响他们与能量效率的总体脱离;（ii）用户不知道他们的决策与能量使用之间的联系;（iii）设计师对用户在能源使用方面的行为了解不够。高端能量控制和反馈接口。EMPOWER的工作包将开始与用户的能源和决策过程的相互作用的人种学工作场所的研究，并深入到详细的用户见解和用户的心理模型。这些见解将支持一系列高度迭代和新颖的参与式设计研讨会在工作场所，与用户和利益相关者。研讨会的成果将推动产品开发过程。最终成果将是一个创新的用户驱动的能源效率产品，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的支持，并与能源和气候变化部进行了持续合作。

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.