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Human-Computer Interfaces to Save Energy
There have been many proposals to save energy by applying computerized user interface to items ranging from a kitchen sink (illuminate the hot water with a red LED) to a car (display the current gas mileage). Some of such interfaces are merely informing, some are persuasive, many are both. Being a researcher in user interface technology and, by education, a physicist, I would like to tie together the different approaches and explore the options in a comprehensive and theoretically as well as empirically grounded manner.
I would like to get things started by proposing a special interest group on this topic for the CHI 2009 conference in Boston, see http://www.chi2009.org/Authors/CallForPapers/Sigs.html
Would anybody want to join? I would also appreciate your comments.
Hi
I often find that a simple warning light as a visual reminder that the item in use is very effective in reminding someone to turn it off. Of corse there are more complex methods that I use in by designs and it would be intresting to exploer them further.
Update: There is already a workshop on Sustainable HCI on that conference. Anybody interested in going to Cambridge, UK, as an alternative? That would be the British conference on human-computer interfaces: http://www.hci2009.org/