Coping with Changing Temperatures: Interactions of People Facing Cancer and Menopause with Home Energy Management Systems

Home energy management systems (HEMS) have changed over the years, particularly with the development of smart home technologies which aim to simplify people’s lives. As life can be hectic, people look to technology to assist in streamlining daily activities, including setting home temperature. The dynamic nature of household composition, including changing residents, guests, as well as changing health status, necessitates the continued evolution of home heating and cooling systems. This research seeks to delineate design considerations for building a home energy management that can interact with situational variants and assist in temperature decision making, relieving users of added stressors during times of familial changes. This research discusses home energy perceptions of people facing either a diagnosis of cancer or experiencing menopausal symptoms in order to discover opportunities for a novel and perceptive home energy management system that considers household structure and familial dynamics.

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[1] Amazon What is Alexa Voice Service? Developer.amazon.com, 2016 https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service/what-is-avs

[2] Amazon Alexa Smart Home https://www.amazon.com/b/?node=13575751011

[3] N. BanerjeeS. RollinsK. Moran Automating energy management in green homes Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCOMM workshop on Home networks ACM 2011 1924

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[5] cosinuss° cosinuss.com, 2016 https://cosinuss.com/de

[6] E. CostanzaS. D. RamchurnN. R. Jennings Understanding domestic energy consumption through interactive visualisation: a field study Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing ACM 2012 216 225

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[12] G. HarboeJ. MinkeI. IleaE. M. Huang 2012 February Computer support for collaborative data analysis: augmenting paper affinity diagrams Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work 1179 1182 ACM

[13] G. IrwinN. BanerjeeA. HurstS. Rollins 2015 Contextual insights into home energy relationships 2015 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops (PerCom Workshops) 305 310

[14] C. KoehlerB. D. ZiebartJ. MankoffA. K. Dey 2013 TherML: occupancy prediction for thermostat control the 2013 ACM international joint conference 103 112 New York, New York, USA ACM

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[19] V. L. PatelD. R. KaufmanT. G. Kannampallil 2013 Diagnostic Reasoning and Decision Making in the Context of Health Information Technology Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics 8 1 149 190

[20] J. PierceE. Paulos A phenomenology of human-electricity relations Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM 2011 2405 2408

[21] J. PierceE. Paulos Beyond energy monitors: interaction, energy, and emerging energy systems Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems ACM 2012 665 674

[22] J. PierceD. J. SchianoE. Paulos Home, habits, and energy: Examining domestic interactions and energy consumption Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '10 ACM New York, NY, USA 2010 1985 1994

[23] G. RenR. HouriziE. O'Neill 2015 Situation awareness and home energy reduction: a study

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[25] D. SlooA. M. FadellM. L. RogersM. PlitkinsM. J. MatasF. Bould User friendly interface for control unit Oct 7 2011 US Patent App. 13/269,501

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[27] J. TanimotoA. HagishimaH. Sagara A methodology for peak energy requirement considering actual variation of occupants behavior schedules Building and Environment 43 4 2008 610 619

[28] I. V. TatarynD. R. MeldrumK. H. LuA. M. FruraarH. L. Judd 1979 LH, FSH and skin temperature during the menopausal hot flash The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 49 1 152 154

[29] The Naturalistic Decision Making Approach July 12 2016 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/seeing-what-others-dont/201602/the-naturalistic-decision-making-approach

[30] R. YangM. W. Newman 2013 Learning from a learning thermostat: lessons for intelligent systems for the home Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international joint ... 93 102 New York, New York, USA ACM

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