The Character of Eco-feedback Systems for Energy Communities

TY - GEN

T1 - The Character of Eco-feedback Systems for Energy Communities

AU - Peña, Èlia Gil

AU - Jensen, Rikke Hagensby

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 ACM.

PY - 2023/5/29

Y1 - 2023/5/29

N2 - Energy communities are emerging around Europe with a vision to transition the traditional centralised energy system to one where individual households can collaborate to become energy producers. Although the vision of energy communities is still in a formative stage, it seems members of such organisations will need digital technology to manage and organise renewable energy together. The design of eco-feedback designs appears as a digital means to create awareness of this need. Yet, until recently, eco-feedback has been designed to target the individual householder. The research presented in this paper aims to identify design characteristics of eco-feedback systems aimed at collaborative energy communities. We explore two different concept designs that are evaluated in a focus group session with prospective energy community members to establish design characteristics. The findings show that participants not only identified characteristics related to different eco-feedback design characters but also identified a set of properties related to the collaborative and social nature of the community.

AB - Energy communities are emerging around Europe with a vision to transition the traditional centralised energy system to one where individual households can collaborate to become energy producers. Although the vision of energy communities is still in a formative stage, it seems members of such organisations will need digital technology to manage and organise renewable energy together. The design of eco-feedback designs appears as a digital means to create awareness of this need. Yet, until recently, eco-feedback has been designed to target the individual householder. The research presented in this paper aims to identify design characteristics of eco-feedback systems aimed at collaborative energy communities. We explore two different concept designs that are evaluated in a focus group session with prospective energy community members to establish design characteristics. The findings show that participants not only identified characteristics related to different eco-feedback design characters but also identified a set of properties related to the collaborative and social nature of the community.

KW - character of things

KW - concept-driven design

KW - eco-feedback

KW - Energy community

KW - sustainability

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85161385349&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3593743.3593783

DO - 10.1145/3593743.3593783

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85161385349

SP - 203

EP - 214

BT - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies - Humanization of Digital Technologies 2023, C and T 2023

PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

T2 - 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies: Humanization of Digital Technologies, C and T 2023

Y2 - 29 May 2023 through 2 June 2023

ER -