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Towards an Integrated Methodology to Design Sustainable Living Practices

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Ambient Intelligence (AmI 2013)

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Sustainable Living Labs (SLL) provide an experimental and interactive infrastructure to enable open innovation processes in the context of real (realistic) home settings. In SLL, home occupants play a role in communicating and discussing their values and lifestyles; they can experience innovations and reflect on the impact of their practices in daily life by means of situated experiments. The Concept House (CH), a SLL built in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, offers such facilities. In this paper, we discuss the development of the Experience Intervention Method (EIM) to obtain a holistic understanding of living practices. We demonstrate the method with a case study on home energy management developed in CH to clarify the role of qualitative and quantitative in-situ methods to get insights, co-design and validate sustainable innovations.

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  1. ID-StudioLab, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, 2628 CE, Delft, The Netherlands

    Natalia Romero, Abdullah Al Mahmud, Satish Beella & David V. Keyson

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London, UK

    Juan Carlos Augusto

  2. Fraunhofer IGD, Fraunhoferstrasse 5, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Reiner Wichert

  3. School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Rem Collier

  4. Delft University of Technology, 2628 CE, Delft, The Netherlands

    David Keyson

  5. Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Bebek, 34342, Istanbul, Turkey

    Albert Ali Salah

  6. School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore

    Ah-Hwee Tan

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Romero, N., Al Mahmud, A., Beella, S., Keyson, D.V. (2013). Towards an Integrated Methodology to Design Sustainable Living Practices. In: Augusto, J.C., Wichert, R., Collier, R., Keyson, D., Salah, A.A., Tan, AH. (eds) Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8309. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03647-2_28

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