Through the Eyes of an Intern: Data Acquisition, Building Technology and Field Deployments
[Editor’s Note: Today we've got a guest post from former CSE intern Angela Qin, who reflects on her time at Fraunhofer and explains how her research into thermostat usability helped pave the way...
How Presentation Medium and Design Influences Energy-Saving Technology Adoption
Over the last few years many display technologies have come onto the home energy management (HEM) market that aim to provide feedback on residential energy consumption. You may have heard of some of…
The 4 Stages of Consumers’ Readiness for Energy Savings
(and how knowing them can help your efficiency campaigns) When trying to encourage consumers to adopt more energy-efficient practices, it can be challenging to develop an initiative that reaches the target audience and…
Augment Your Reality
If you haven’t seen this yet: get ready to see it everywhere. Augmented reality is on its way to being the new ubiquity. Presaged by the pixilated QR codes that convey web addresses,…