Spence, A;
Goulden, M;
Leygue, C;
Banks, N;
Bedwell, B;
Jewell, M;
Yang, R;
(2018)
Digital energy visualizations in the workplace: the e-Genie tool.
Building Research and Information
, 46
(3)
pp. 272-283.
10.1080/09613218.2018.1409569.
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Abstract
Building management systems are designed for energy managers; there are few energy-feedback systems designed to engage staff. A tool, known as e-Genie, was created with the purpose of engaging workplace occupants with energy data and supporting them to take action to reduce energy use. Building on research insights within the field, e-Genie’s novel approach encourages users to make plans to meet energy-saving goals, supports discussion and considers social energy behaviours (e.g. discussing energy issues, taking part in campaigns) as well as individual actions. A field-based study of e-Genie indicated that visualizations of energy data were engaging and that the discussion ‘Pinboard’ was particularly popular. Pre- and post-survey (N = 77) evaluation of users indicated that people were significantly more concerned about energy issues and reported engaging more in social energy behaviour after about two weeks of e-Genie being installed. Concurrently, objective measures of electricity use decreased over the same period, and continued decreasing over subsequent weeks. Indications are that occupant-facing energy-feedback visualizations can be successful in reducing energy use in the workplace; furthermore, supporting social energy behaviour in the workplace is likely to be a useful direction for promoting action.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Digital energy visualizations in the workplace: the e-Genie tool |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09613218.2018.1409569 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2018.1409569 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | behaviour change, data visualization, digital technologies, energy demand, energy literacy, energy reduction, energy-use behaviour, feedback, non-domestic buildings, occupants, user engagement, workplace |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046670 |
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