{"id":57,"date":"2013-04-25T17:03:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.nott.ac.uk\/~jef\/?p=57"},"modified":"2015-02-10T13:11:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:11:46","slug":"best-paper-award-at-chi-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.cs.nott.ac.uk\/pszjf1\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Best Paper Award at CHI ’13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our CHI paper “At Home with Agents:\u00a0Exploring Attitudes Towards Future Smart Energy Infrastructures<\/a>” got a\u00a0Best Paper Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I presented the work on Tuesday, April 30 at 11am, at CHI in Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sketching future energy infrastructures<\/h2>\n

\"present-overview-sm\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The work presented in the paper is based on whiteboard animations of future energy infrastructures.\u00a0Nils Jaeger<\/a> was so kind as to provide us with his artistic skills.<\/p>\n

We developed the sketch in three parts. The first part grounds the sketch in the present, the second part forecasts the near future based on policies, trends and anticipated technologes; and the third part envisions a further future that introduces home energy agents to enable a range of smart energy ‘services’.<\/p>\n

Trust dilemma<\/h2>\n

We use these whiteboard animations to explore attitudes towards the portrayed futures with focus groups. We discover a ‘trust dilemma’: people do see the need to ‘do something’ but they fundamentally do not trust the energy companies that provide the infrastructure. We suggest key design principles to address the emerging challenges.<\/p>\n

Whiteboard animation<\/h2>\n