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Ubicomp 2010 Workshop: Ubiquitous Computing for Sustainable Energy (UCSE2010)

The workshop will be held at Ubicomp 2010

Workshop Program - Sunday Sept 25, 2010

  • 09:00-09:15 Introduction to the topic
  • 09:15-09:30 Introduction of the participants, each participant states why thy are interested in the topic
  • 09:30-10:30 4 talks (max. 10 minutes for each talk) and discussion
  • 10:30-11:00 break
  • 11:00-12:30 5 talks (max. 10 minutes for each talk) and discussion
  • 12:30-14:00 break (during which people chalk up topics on whiteboards for breakout)
  • 14:00-15:00 discussion in sub groups
  • 15:00-15:30 plenary session to discuss sub group results
  • 15:30-16:00 break
  • 16:00-17:00 discussion, road map, wrap up
  • Workshop dinner (optional)
  • Flash video recorder software

We hope to have an interactive and lively workshop! The plan is that we have during the talks people writing down questions/thoughts/ideas to share and discuss later during the day. In the lunch break we will have the chance to sort and discuss them and to select some for the break out groups in the afternoon.

Online Proceedings


Download the complete UCSE 2010 proceedings in a single pdf file.


Talks, Comments an Questions

  • A Survey and Thought-Provoking Impulses on Tackling Energy Efficiency in Households and Office Spaces presented by Marco Jahn (SLIDES as PDF)
  • Supporting Sustainable Living: Aware Homes and Smart Occupants presented by Johnny Rodgers (SLIDES as PDF)
  • Adaptive thermal modelling for buildings presented by Carl Ellis (SLIDES as PDF)
  • Take a Closer Look - The Role of the User in Ubiquitous Smart Energy Systems presented by Marco Jahn. (SLIDES as PDF)
  • User Created Machine-readable Policies for Energy Efficiency in Smart Homes presented by Rene Mayrhofer SLIDES as PDF
  • Monitoring Smart Building Performance Using Simulation and Visualisation presented by Kris McGlinn SLIDES as PDF
  • Domestic Energy: Practices and Consumption presented by Janine Morley
  • Persuasive End-User Energy Management presented by Johann Schrammel
  • Towards a PowerPedia – A Collaborative Energy Encyclopedia presented by Markus Weiss


please feel free to share your slides on this pager

2 minute madness

Summary slides in PDF from 2 minute madness session

Key points

  • More questions than answers. As a community, we’re just at the start of this discussion...
  • Action
    • What is the impact of our actions? Can we measure & model the chain of impacts and when is waste exactly? How and when do we communicate this to users to inform and educate?
  • Incentives
    • How do we motivate users to make savings? Coercion, incentives, punishment, social pressure? Or do we just avoid them and automate? Is ubicomp an opitmiser, helper, educator, bully?
  • Reduce
    • How to reduce the friction of taking actions or communicating user wishes? Can we reduce the burden for users to lower perceived cost and maximise benefit?
  • System
    • How do we design systems that minimise the cost of taking positive action (laptop into standby or not)?
    • Can we open up systems and share (building management systems, sensor data)?
    • What are the APIs and how do we manage the privacy and ethical concerns?
  • Big picture
    • Can we align with the stakeholders needs (e.g. the energy market, peak demand)?
    • How does this fit within the wider context of societal norms and pressures from our political masters? Can ubicomp help shape these?

What are the Big Questions?

WIP: transcribing of the post-its going on in here...

  • What can Ubicomp do to make live more sustainable/Role of Ubicomp
    • how to address to the incentives for different stakeholder?
    • how provide visualizations and means for interactions for people (from ambient interaction to the "all-off-switch")
  • Feedback
    • how complex should be the feedback
    • automation vs. user involvement
    • goals of the system vs. tailoring for the user
    • how to reduce the friction / how to minimize the cost of action (laptop into standby or not) - usability, simplicity given complexity of what's being reflected
    • ways of involving the user
      • understanding the impact of personal choices
      • from creating awareness
      • suggestions
      • who is in control / balance between user and system automation
      • perception of loss vs. gains are stronger, immediate needs vs. decoupled impact
  • Optimality
    • what is an optimal system with regard to energy
    • what is wasting energy and can we model what the user is intending with minimal impact
    • how to interdependencies between actions of user / system
  • Policy vs. social pressure vs. Free will
    • social norms
    • change happening as a society
    • making the behaviour visible to others (creating social pressure)
    • timeframe for the need for change
    • supporting individul goals in reducing power consumption
    • company policies, myth busting
  • Energy is part of a larger lifestyle question
    • saving energy as secondary / side effect of other actions
    • is energy meaningful to the user (we can not see it)
    • trade-off between phone usage vs. driving there
  • externalities
    • do thing make it better or worse
    • what are the impact of the bahvior
    • cause and effect is not clear
    • model trade-offs, cause and effects
  • understanding effects
    • better descisions
    • effort required by the user? yes or no?
    • more knowledge about the systems to understand better how it works
  • comfort == achivement
    • need to have options for control
  • radical changes
    • infrastructure and production
    • attitues
    • reporing in calories not Watt


  • low hanging fruits
    • academically interesting vs. simple/pragmatic/efficient/accurate?
  • time and locality of use and generation
    • use local energy = losing while transmitting
    • use available when it is available = storage ist expensive
    • creating awareness about different producion modes
  • entainment driven
    • sustainable concerts - people on bikes power the sound system
  • modelling
    • what can we model
    • what can we simulate
    • at production/design time
    • the supply and usage
    • cost of models
    • automation vs. control
  • privacy
    • sensor data
    • open API
    • there is a privacy issue
    • ethics
    • create social pressure (houses show on the outside energy efficency)
  • security
    • people offer information about people's absense
    • remote monitoring

Ideas for break-out groups and discussion

  • please add your idea here

Some data sets

  • Data collected by 54 sensors (light, temp, humidity) deployed in the

Intel Berkeley Research Lab http://db.csail.mit.edu/labdata/labdata.html

  • Data collected from 60 laptop users to show their battery usage

http://traces.cs.umass.edu/index.php/Power/Power


IFC BIM Java Library

http://www.openifctools.org/Open_IFC_Tools/Home.html

Summary and Theme

Providing sustainable energy is a central challenge for mankind. The problems faced are inherently multidisciplinary and relate to technology, economics, psychology, and human values and we believe that Ubicomp research – with its approach and methodology as well as with its technologies – can make an important contribution. With renewable sources we see changes towards a more decentralized and fluctuating production of energy. Solar and wind powered energy supplies are examples where the availability is basically unlimited but actual availability differs greatly over time (e.g. between day and night). Informed users, who understand the impact of their energy usage and for whom the implications of consuming energy at a certain moment becomes accessible may act very differently. Similarly smart devices and networked systems can potentially adapt to available resources. Overall we see a potential that Ubicomp research can contribute to reduce the energy demand of society and to provide means for a better utilization of renewable energy sources.

List the specific topics of interest

The topics of interest can be categorized in 4 areas.
1) Understanding and motivating users of energy systems

  • Ethnographic studies on energy usage
  • Assessments of values and constraints users have
  • Surveys and studies on energy usage in the context of Ubicomp
  • Experience reports

2) Smart energy systems and technologies

  • Concepts and technologies for smart energy systems
  • Experience with smart energy production
  • Intelligent and adaptive energy consumers
  • Interaction between users and smart energy systems
  • User interfaces for energy systems

3) Intelligent energy infrastructures

  • Ubicomp technologies for smart grid infrastructures
  • Smart metering technologies and applications
  • Security and privacy in intelligent energy systems
  • Local (in-house) smart energy infrastructures

4) Socio-Economic drivers and incentives

  • Models and explanations for energy usages
  • Systems and technologies to foster energy awareness
  • Persuasive technologies in the energy domain

Organizers

Goals and Expected Audience

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners with different backgrounds that relate to sustainable energy systems. We expect that to move this forward requires bringing together ideas and research from energy systems, human computer interaction, economics, and ubiquitous computing. The common ground is the interest in ubiquitous computing technologies in the energy domain. The workshop will provide a venue to present novel research in this field and to openly discuss ideas and problems on the topic. By bringing together different viewpoints a common understanding can emerge. The overall aim of the workshop is to foster a community in Ubiquitous Computing for Sustainable Energy and to facilitate interaction.

Submission Formats

Participants will be selected based on their submission which will be reviewed by researchers working in this area. We will consider the following submission types:

  • Position Papers (about 1-2 pages)
    In these position papers prospective participants should describe interest and experience in this field. The content may be a short description of an ongoing project or research questions and ideas. These papers will be published on the website and will get a 3 minutes presentation slot.
  • Research Papers (about 3-6 pages)
    The research papers should present ongoing research, case studies, work in progress and early results. We look for contributions that introduce new idea and concepts. These papers will be published on the website and will get a 10 minutes presentation slot.
  • Demonstration or Videos (with position or research papers)
    We encourage participants to bring demonstration and videos along with their paper.

Please send your submission to ucse2010@hcilab.org as PDF. The papers should be formatted according to the SIGCHI extended abstracts Format (http://www.sigchi.org/chi2010/authors/format.html#extendedformat) online users counter script

Timeline and Deadlines

  • Jul 2, 2010 - Submission deadline of workshop papers
  • Jul 26, 2010 - Notification of acceptance
  • Aug 06, 2010 - Final version deadline

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