Towards an ambient awareness interface for home battery storage system

Eiman Yehia Hussein Aly Elbanhawy; Andrew Smith; John Moore

doi:10.1145/2968219.2968557

Towards an ambient awareness interface for home battery storage system

Eiman Yehia Hussein Aly Elbanhawy, Andrew Smith, John Moore

Portsmouth School of Architecture

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Abstract

Roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) generation is becoming more prevalent within the domestic setting. Recently battery systems have enabled households to store excess self-generated electricity for subsequent use. However the associated user-interfaces and displays can be hard to understand, potentially preventing households from optimizing their solar usage. This paper introduces a known method being deployed in a new context. It reports on on-going research that investigates the effect of in-home ambient light displays linked to the home battery system. The paper covers the design stage and potential feedback solutions to raise awareness and influence consumer behaviour to promote energy conservation. An Ambient Light System is proposed to enable better user feedback. The study outlines the design recommendation for an ambient light display to be used in an energy consumption context.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1608-1613
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-4462-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2968557
Publication status	Published - 12 Sep 2016
Event	The 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing - Heidelberg, Germany Duration: 12 Sep 2016 → 16 Sep 2016 https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2016/index.php

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Conference	The 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
Abbreviated title	UbiComp '16
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Heidelberg
Period	12/09/16 → 16/09/16
Internet address	https://ubicomp.org/ubicomp2016/index.php

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Ambiant Display
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Elbanhawy, EYHA, Smith, A & Moore, J 2016, Towards an ambient awareness interface for home battery storage system. in UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct. ACM, pp. 1608-1613, The 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Heidelberg, Germany, 12/09/16. https://doi.org/10.1145/2968219.2968557

Towards an ambient awareness interface for home battery storage system. / Elbanhawy, Eiman Yehia Hussein Aly; Smith, Andrew; Moore, John.

UbiComp '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct. ACM, 2016. p. 1608-1613.

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