Visualizing energy consumption activities as a tool for making everyday life more sustainable

被引:97
作者
Ellegard, Kajsa [1 ]
Palm, Jenny [1 ]
机构
[1] Linkoping Univ, Dept Themat Studies Technol & Social Change, S-58183 Linkoping, Sweden
关键词
Energy consumption; Household; Time diary; Policy; Activity pattern; Visualization; BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY;
D O I
10.1016/j.apenergy.2010.11.019
中图分类号
TE [石油、天然气工业]; TK [能源与动力工程];
学科分类号
080707 [能源环境工程]; 082001 [油气井工程];
摘要
The need to analyze and understand energy consumption in relation to households' activity patterns is vital for developing policy means that contribute to an energy efficient life and what people would deem as a "good" everyday life. To do this we need to learn more about how energy use is a part of everyday life: this article contributes to that objective. We use the time-geographic diary approach together with interviews to analyze everyday life as a totality. From household members' time diaries, we can analyze and learn about when, where, and what energy-related activities occur in a household context and by whom (and in what social context) they are performed. We discuss the importance of relating information and feedback to households' everyday activities, in order to make it relevant to households. Through our method we discover and visualize activity patterns in a household during a given period. The method is also useful to households as a reflective tool when discussing families' daily lives in relation to energy consumption. The method gives direct feedback to households and the information is relevant since it emanates from their own reported activities. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1920 / 1926
页数:7
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