Eco-Avatars: Visualizing Disaggregated Home Energy Use
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This paper presents Eco-avatars, a tool aiming to promote long-term energy conservation behaviors across householders. It takes advantage of the emotional links that can form between humans and avatars, or personal digital personifications. The application represents each member of a household as an avatar situated in a shared graphical environment that reacts according to individual consumption activity and shows collective performance. This paper argues that playful visualizations that let users observe the impact of their consumption behaviors on a personal virtual representation, and contrast this with others in their household, will provide support and motivation for engaging in long-term sustainable behaviors.
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Blum Center for Developing Economies
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