Motivate Environmentally Sustainable Thermostat-Use through Goal-Setting, Just-In-Time Recommendations, and Behavior Reflection

Nudge & Influence Through Mobile Devices 2010.

社会科学（总论）;计算机科学

Christian Koehler ; Anind K. Dey ; Jennifer Mankoff ; Ian Oakley

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PID  :  41644

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

Rising power demands resulting from technological advancements is an increasingly important global issue. One way to tackle this problem is to motivate individual behavior change, for which the ubiquity of mobile phones offer an ideal platform to in fluence consumption behavior of users. In this paper we explore the possibilities for using timely recommendations, goal-setting, immediate feedback, and visualization of past consumption behavior in order to motivate people to reduce power consumption resulting from heating/cooling devices. We describe a mobile application which gives the user direct access to the thermostat and provides feedback everyday on how sustainable the user was on the previous day. In addition to this feedback, it gives recommendations to improve the behavior and also offers a behavior overview. The contributions of this paper include a working system for remote control over the thermostat and a goal-setting, recommendation, and feedback application designed to influence a user's behavior.Categories and Subject DescriptorsH5.m. [Information interfaces and presentation]: e.g., HCIGeneral TermsDesign, Human Factors