Temporal visualization of energy consumption loads using time-tone

Masood Masoodian; Ida Buchwald; Saturnino Luz; Elisabeth André

doi:10.1109/iV.2017.13

Temporal visualization of energy consumption loads using time-tone

Masood Masoodian, Ida Buchwald, Saturnino Luz, Elisabeth André

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Abstract

Feedback plays an important role in assisting users to better understand their energy consumption behaviour. This is particularly true when users want to change their behaviour in order to reduce their energy consumption, and to manage their usage more effectively so as to avoid putting unnecessary load on energy providers. This paper presents the time-tone visualization, which aims to assist users by displaying variations in energy consumption by different categories of household devices over time, and their respective contributions to the total energy usage load. A user study conducted to compare time-tone against area-charts shows that although the two visualizations are comparable, time-tone is more effective for cases where there are large variations in energy usage loads.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2017 21st International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2017
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages	146-151
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538608319
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2017.13
Publication status	Published - 14 May 2017
Event	21st International Conference Information Visualisation, iV 2017 - London, United Kingdom Duration: 11 Jul 2017 → 14 Jul 2017

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Conference	21st International Conference Information Visualisation, iV 2017
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	London
Period	11/07/17 → 14/07/17

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

Area-charts
Energy usage load
Energy usage visualizations
Time-based data
Time-series
Time-tone
Timelines

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Masoodian, M, Buchwald, I, Luz, S & André, E 2017, Temporal visualization of energy consumption loads using time-tone. in Proceedings - 2017 21st International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2017., 8107961, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, pp. 146-151, 21st International Conference Information Visualisation, iV 2017, London, United Kingdom, 11/07/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/iV.2017.13

Temporal visualization of energy consumption loads using time-tone. / Masoodian, Masood; Buchwald, Ida; Luz, Saturnino et al.
Proceedings - 2017 21st International Conference Information Visualisation, IV 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017. p. 146-151 8107961.

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