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ArchiExpression: A Physical Eco-Feedback Display in an Outdoor Campus Space of China

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Chinese CHI '16: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium of Chinese CHI

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2948708.2948711

Published: 08 May 2016 Publication History

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Eco-feedback is popularly explored as an approach to promoting energy conservation, usually examined in residential settings with screen-based displays. How a physical eco-feedback display may work in a non-residential setting, e.g. campus, is still relatively underexplored. This paper presents a physical eco-feedback display - ArchiExpression - to be installed in a shared outdoor space of China, and explores its role in engaging attention and awareness on energy related issues for people of the space. Rather than showing energy information visually and accurately on a screen-based display, ArchiExpression presents information physically and ambiguously with a matrix of solar panel units. A two-week study of its deployment in a university campus of China illustrates its effectiveness in engaging people's interests, as well as people's reflections on energy consumption and the meanings of the eco-feedback design itself. The study highlights how the context, the form and the ambiguity shape the meanings of the eco-feedback display and people's interactions with it.

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ArchiExpression: A Physical Eco-Feedback Display in an Outdoor Campus Space of China
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Bouzekri ERivière G(2023)Validating Design Choices of a Bio-Inspired Histogram to Support a Shared Practice of Clean Energy at the WorkplaceProceedings of the 34th Conference on l'Interaction Humain-Machine10.1145/3583961.3583965(1-20)Online publication date: 3-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3583961.3583965
Bentvelzen MWoźniak PHerbes PStefanidi ENiess J(2022)Revisiting Reflection in HCIProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35172336:1(1-27)Online publication date: 29-Mar-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517233
Nor RMD. Kamal MHamid H(2021)Monitoring Idling Car Gas Leakage and Notification via Mobile with Eco-Feedback2021 6th IEEE International Conference on Recent Advances and Innovations in Engineering (ICRAIE)10.1109/ICRAIE52900.2021.9704026(1-6)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRAIE52900.2021.9704026

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