Display Design and Energy Conservation Performance:A Microworld Study
Providing feedback about energy consumption to consumers has been shown to reduce their energy use by as much as 20％ (Darby, 2006). However, energy consumption feedback has not been studied systematically and its design has rarely been approached from a human factors perspective. We conducted a microworld study using a systematic human factors approach to the design of information: Ecological Interface Design (EID). Participants were asked to stabilize the rate and temperature of water flow from a simulated feed-water system while wasting as little water and energy as possible. The 30 participants controlled the microworld using one of three interfaces: a traditional interface, an ecological interface, or an ecological interface supplemented with information to aid the conservation task performance. Subjects using the supplemented EID interface performed better in both primary and secondary tasks than those presented with the traditional interface. However, those using the supplemented EID interface did not perform significantly better than those presented with the EID display. Two key questions for further study include: (1) How would task performance on a traditional interface supplemented with conservation-goal relevant information compare to performance using the EID or supplemented EID interfaces? (2) Does information about conservation goals aid performance when production goals are in opposition to conservation goals?
S.A.C. Flemming G.A. Jamieson
University of TorontoToronto, Ontario, Canada University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-8
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）