Shifting Home Energy Consumption Through a Holistic Understanding of the Home System of Practice
This chapter describes the concept of the home system of practice, which can be used to provide a deeper understanding of the social system of the home and inform long-term solutions for enabling domestic energy reduction. More traditional methods have attempted to persuade occupants to change behav...
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| author | Eon, Christine Breadsell, Jessica Morrison, Gregory Byrne, Joshua |
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| description | This chapter describes the concept of the home system of practice, which can be used to provide a deeper understanding of the social system of the home and inform long-term solutions for enabling domestic energy reduction. More traditional methods have attempted to persuade occupants to change behaviour through the use of information campaigns and feedback technology. However, these interventions are usually short lived as they ignore the underlying reasons for practices to occur. A more effective solution is through practice-oriented design, which co-creates innovative technology with the user. In addition, the emergence and use of automated technology enables practices to act independently of the user. Yet, the success of automation is also reliant on an understanding of the home system of practice, occupant needs and skills. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-760332019-08-12T08:17:40Z Shifting Home Energy Consumption Through a Holistic Understanding of the Home System of Practice Eon, Christine Breadsell, Jessica Morrison, Gregory Byrne, Joshua newton, peter Prasad, Deo Sproul, Alistair White, Stephen Urban Planning Urban Design Urban Policy Urban environment This chapter describes the concept of the home system of practice, which can be used to provide a deeper understanding of the social system of the home and inform long-term solutions for enabling domestic energy reduction. More traditional methods have attempted to persuade occupants to change behaviour through the use of information campaigns and feedback technology. However, these interventions are usually short lived as they ignore the underlying reasons for practices to occur. A more effective solution is through practice-oriented design, which co-creates innovative technology with the user. In addition, the emergence and use of automated technology enables practices to act independently of the user. Yet, the success of automation is also reliant on an understanding of the home system of practice, occupant needs and skills. 2019 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76033 10.1007/978-981-13-7940-6_23 Palgrave Macmillan fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Urban Planning Urban Design Urban Policy Urban environment Eon, Christine Breadsell, Jessica Morrison, Gregory Byrne, Joshua Shifting Home Energy Consumption Through a Holistic Understanding of the Home System of Practice |
| title | Shifting Home Energy Consumption Through a Holistic Understanding of the Home System of Practice |
| title_full | Shifting Home Energy Consumption Through a Holistic Understanding of the Home System of Practice |
| title_fullStr | Shifting Home Energy Consumption Through a Holistic Understanding of the Home System of Practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shifting Home Energy Consumption Through a Holistic Understanding of the Home System of Practice |
| title_short | Shifting Home Energy Consumption Through a Holistic Understanding of the Home System of Practice |
| title_sort | shifting home energy consumption through a holistic understanding of the home system of practice |
| topic | Urban Planning Urban Design Urban Policy Urban environment |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76033 |