Persuade to Conserve
Event details
| Date | 13.09.2013 |
| Hour | 11:00 |
| Speaker |
Mohit Jain, IBM Bio: Mohit Jain is the HCI (Human Computer Interaction) guy at the Smarter Energy group at IBM Research India. He graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Toronto. His research interest includes designing interactive systems, developing interaction techniques, and conducting usability evaluations in the field of Sustainability, Education and HCI4D (HCI for Development). Previously, he has worked at Microsoft Research, HP Labs, and Amazon, and has published at important venues including CHI, UbiComp and IUI. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Global consumption of energy, water and fuel has been increasing rapidly. The supply cannot always be increased fast enough to meet demand, and some resources such as fuels are non-renewable. An alternative solution is to decrease demand, which requires persuading consumers to change their consumption behaviour. In this talk, I will discuss two of my on-going research projects, Wattalyst and YouGrid. In Wattalyst, we designed and developed Energy Efficiency Persuasive Interfaces for residential consumers, to be deployed in Chennai and Sweden. The interface provides appliance level consumption visualization, social comparative analysis, and incentives driven DR (Demand Response) signals to reduce electricity demand. For YouGrid, we designed and developed a collaborative interactive scheduler allowing community users to schedule their appliance usage in advance, resulting in improved fuel conversion efficiency of the diesel generators through optimal loading. Moreover, the interface provides different visualization to understand consumption of diesel generator, and other primary and secondary loads.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- François Chantal <[email protected]>
Contact
- François Chantal <[email protected]>