James Pierce
Eric Paulos
ABSTRACT
Motivated and informed by perspectives on sustainability and design, this paper draws on a diverse body of scholarly works related to energy and materiality to articulate a perspective on energy-as-materiality and propose a design approach of materializing energy. Three critical themes are presented: the intangibility of energy, the undifferentiatedness of energy, and the availability of energy. Each theme is developed through combination of critical investigation and design exploration, including the development and deployment of several novel design artifacts: Energy Mementos and The Local Energy Lamp. A framework for interacting with energy-as-materiality is proposed involving collecting, keeping, sharing, and activating energy. A number of additional concepts are also introduced, such as energy attachment, energy engagement, energy attunement, local energy and energy meta-data. Our work contributes both a broader, more integrative design perspective on energy and materiality as well as a diversity of more specific concepts and artifacts that may be of service to designers and researchers of interactive systems concerned with sustainability and energy.
- Backlund, S., Gustafsson, A., Gyllenswärd, M., Ilstedt-Hjelm, 4. S., Mazé, R., & Redströöm, J. (2006). Static! The aesthetics of energy in everyday things. In Proc. of DRSIC.Google Scholar
- Belk, R. (1991). "Possessions and the Sense of Past." In Russell W. Belk (ed.) Highways and Buyways: Naturalistic Research from the Consumer Behavior Odyssey.Google Scholar
- Blevis, E. (2007). Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse. In Proc. of CHI '08. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Borgmann, A. (1984). Technology and character of contemporary life. University of Chicago Press.Google Scholar
- Chetty, M., Tran, D., & Grinter, R. (2008). Getting to green: understanding resource consumption in the home, In Proc. Ubicomp '08. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Devine-Wright, P. (2006). Energy citizenship: psychological aspects of evolution in sustainable energy technologies. In J. Murphy (ed.) Governance of Sustainable Technology.Google Scholar
- Dobbyn J. & Thomas G. (2005) Seeing the light: the impact of micro-generation on our use of energy. Sustainable Consumption Roundtable, London.Google Scholar
- Dunne, T. & Raby, F. (2001). Design noir: the secret life of electronic objects. Birkhauser.Google Scholar
- Froehlich, J. Findlater, L., & Landay, J. (2010). The design of eco-feedback technology. In Proc. of CHI '10. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Ihde, D. (1998). Technology and the lifeworld. IU Press.Google Scholar
- Fry, T. (1999). A new design philosophy: an introduction to defuturing. UNSW Press.Google Scholar
- Fry, T. (2009). Design futuring: Sustainability, ethics and new practice. Berg.Google Scholar
- Gaver, B., Dunne, T., & Pacenti, E. (1999). Design: Cultural probes. Interactions, 6(1):21--29. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Huang, E. M. & Truong, K. N. (2008). Breaking the disposable technology paradigm: opportunities for sustainable interaction design for mobile phones. In Proc. of CHI '08. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Hughes, T. (1983). Networks of power. John Hopkins.Google Scholar
- Kleine, S. (2004). An Integrative Review of Material Possession Attachment. Academy of Marketing Sci. Review.Google Scholar
- Lindsay, B. (1975). Energy: Historical development of the concept. Halsted Press.Google Scholar
- Lutenhiser, L., Harris, C., & Olsen, M. (2002). Energy, society, and environment. In Dunlap, R. and Michelson, W. (ed.) Handbook of environmental sociology.Google Scholar
- Mazé R., & Redströöm J. (2008). Switch! Energy Ecologies in Everyday Life. Int. Journal of Design, 22(3): 55--70.Google Scholar
- McCracken, G. (1988). Culture and Consumption. IU Press.Google Scholar
- Odom, W., Pierce, J. Stolterman, E., & Blevis, E. (2009). Understanding why we preserve some things and discard others in the context of interaction design. In Proc. CHI '09. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Pierce, J., Odom, W., & Blevis, E. (2008). Energy aware dwelling: a critical survey of interaction design for eco-visualizations. In Proc. OZCHI '08. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Pierce, J., Schiano, D., & Paulos, E. (2010). Home, habits and energy: investigating domestic interactions and energy consumption. In Proc. of CHI '10. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Redström, J. (2005). On Technology as Material in Design. In Willis, A-M. (ed.) Design Philosophy Papers, Collection Two:31--42.Google Scholar
- Rosa, E., Machlis, G., & Keating, K. (1988). "Energy and Society", Annual Review of Sociology 14:149--72.Google ScholarCross Ref
- Sengers, P., Boehner, K., David, S., and Kaye, J. (2005). Reflective design. In Proc. Critical Computing. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Shove, E. (2003). Comfort, cleanliness and convenience: the social organisation of normality. Berg.Google Scholar
- Stern, P. & Aronson, E. (ed.) (1984). Energy use: The human dimension. Freeman and Company.Google Scholar
- Strengers, Y. (2008). Smart metering demand management programs: challenging the comfort and cleanliness habitus of households. In Proc. OZCHI '08. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Verbeek, P-P. (2005). What Things Do -- Philosophical Reflections on Technology, Agency, and Design. Penn State.Google Scholar
- Wakkary, R. & Tanenbaum, K. (2009). A sustainable identity: the creativity of an everyday designer. In Proc. CHI '09. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Woodward, I. (2007). Understanding material culture. Sage.Google Scholar
- Zimmerman, J., Forlizzi, J., & Evenson, S. (2007). Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI. In Proc. of CHI '07. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Materializing energy
Recommendations
Beyond energy monitors: interaction, energy, and emerging energy systems
CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMotivated by a recent surge of research related to energy and sustainability, this paper presents a review of energy-related work within HCI as well as from literature outside of HCI. Our review of energy-related HCI research identifies a central ...
Uncovering practices of making energy consumption accountable: A phenomenological inquiry
Reacting to the discussion on global warming, the HCI community has started to explore the design of tools to support responsible energy consumption. An important part of this research focuses on motivating energy savings by providing feedback tools ...
Sociomateriality: Infrastructuring and Appropriation of Artifacts
TEI '18: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied InteractionThis Studio offers researchers and designers an opportunity to investigate and discuss prototypes and in-process projects from a perspective that expands beyond material aspects, to also cover social and cultural ones. Participants will bring a project, ...
Comments