Abstract
Most previous research in sustainable HCI has focused on electricity consumption in domestic environments or private office spaces. Here, we address use of lighting in public areas of office buildings with the goal of understanding and measuring how calm technologies can inspire positive engagement by promoting awareness and competition. We have conducted a 15-month study with the design, deployment, and assessment of two complementary ambient apparatus (one centralized, one distributed) in an office building occupied by ICT start-up companies. Our results show that calm technology can be effective under specific conditions, resulting in a significant reduction of average electricity consumption. We also discovered that in the absence of automatic controls, approximately 25% of lighting consumption occurred during off-work hours.
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As the invitation was performed via a mailing list managed by the owner of the building, we do not know the exact number of occupants who received our message.
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This work was made possible with the support of the EquipEx AmiQual4Home ANR-11-EQPX-00 and the ANR-15-IDEX-02 as the cross-disciplinary project Eco-SESA. We thank the occupants of the building for their participation as well as Daniel Llerena, professor in experimental economy, for suggesting the friendly competition game approach, and M. Yuiko, D. Shiffman, and R. Chao for their contribution to the particles and the tree available from the Processing web site [19].
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Coutaz, J. et al. (2018). “Will the Last One Out, Please Turn off the Lights”: Promoting Energy Awareness in Public Areas of Office Buildings. In: Kameas, A., Stathis, K. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03062-9_2
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