Category: Energy

Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption,ACM Creativity and Cognition,2007

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1254982

Can creative visualizations of real time energy consumption patterns trigger more ecologically responsible behavior? Media art that displays the real time usage of key resources such as electricity offers new strategies to conserve energy in the home and workplace. This paper details the development of a public art project created for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications that measures electricity usage in real time for the purpose of education and curtailment of power usage. A version of this piece will be on view in the exhibition, Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary, a component of the 2007 Creativity and Cognition conference.

7000 Oaks and Counting, Tiffany Holmes,2006-2009

http://tiffanyholmes.com/current-ecoart/7000-oaks-and-counting/

on follwoing paper
http://andrewjohnsonhci.blogspot.com/2010/03/nourishing-ground-for-sustainable-hci.html
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518763&coll=DL&dl=ACM&CFID=43637906&CFTOKEN=18648348

GE Data Visualization: Powering the Kitchen,2011

[Java App Web site]

the Kitchen

It’s 10 p.m. Do you know how much energy your kitchen appliances are using? You will, with Brillion technology, which can connect your appliances to a smart meter that you can access via your computer or mobile device. The visualization was originally developed as a touchscreen application for the Consumer Electronics Show, but now you can explore this web version to learn more about how appliances in a sample home consumed energy over the course of a month.

this data

The data utilized in this application comes from a sample household equipped with Brillon technology over one month’s time.

Design Partner

Fathom, Ben Fry