Pei-Luen Patrick Rau
ABSTRACT
Recent study reported that users were shutting down their smart thermostat due to the poor performance in comfort and energy saving. This study aims to explore how automation in energy conservation system should be designed from a new perspective: comfort-energy trade-off. Scenario-based survey was conducted with 106 participants. Results showed that monitored control (high level of automation) was most satisfied in energy-saving-motivated control scenario and consensual control (low level of automation) was most satisfied in comfort-motivated control scenario. Users perceived the same sense of control in consensual control and monitored control as in manual control (no automation) in most scenarios. Thus, the results indicated that automatic environment control should not always be the same, but adaptively designed in accordance with specific comfort-energy trade-off situations, considering different control scenario, personal requirement and culture.
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Index Terms
- Promote Energy Conservation in Automatic Environment Control: A Comfort-Energy Trade-off Perspective
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