Visualization-assisted Insights into Home Energy Usage
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Date
2015
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Motivated by both cost savings and environmental concerns, managing energy in the home has become increasingly important. Though both user-driven and automated solutions have shown promise, a deeper understanding of the characteristics of energy usage behavior is necessary to inform the design of such systems. In this work, we present the results of a study that explores the insights and characteristics participants are able to derive using two well-known visualization techniques for time series data. We find that participants are able to extract a variety of relevant features and explain general and anomalous patterns of behavior. We also find that the preferred visualization is both user- and task-dependent. These findings may be used as the basis for new systems for home energy management.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:eurovisshort.20151131,
booktitle = {Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis) - Short Papers},
editor = {E. Bertini and J. Kennedy and E. Puppo},
title = {{Visualization-assisted Insights into Home Energy Usage}},
author = {Law, Matthew and Rollins, Sami and Banerjee, Nilanjan and Joshi, Alark},
year = {2015},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {},
DOI = {10.2312/eurovisshort.20151131}
}