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T1 - Are you sitting uncomfortably?
T2 - A tale of comfort, energy and productivity
AU - Tyler, A.
AU - New, K.
AU - Friday, A.
N1 - Export Date: 17 October 2019
PY - 2019/9/9
Y1 - 2019/9/9
N2 - Maintaining a consistent indoor temperature causes one of the largest energy demands in UK. UK buildings are famously poorly insulated and expensive to heat and cool. This is set to become ever more challenging in a warming and rapidly changing climate. What if we allowed ourselves to be more uncomfortable and took more charge of our thermal comfort? Wouldn’t we then be healthier, more thermally delighted, more productive? Would we not also save energy and related carbon emissions? We offer this provocation, and set the challenge to identify how this should change the role of future ubiquitous environments.
AB - Maintaining a consistent indoor temperature causes one of the largest energy demands in UK. UK buildings are famously poorly insulated and expensive to heat and cool. This is set to become ever more challenging in a warming and rapidly changing climate. What if we allowed ourselves to be more uncomfortable and took more charge of our thermal comfort? Wouldn’t we then be healthier, more thermally delighted, more productive? Would we not also save energy and related carbon emissions? We offer this provocation, and set the challenge to identify how this should change the role of future ubiquitous environments.
KW - Energy saving
KW - Ethics
KW - Non-domestic heating
KW - Sustainability
KW - Thermal comfort
KW - Energy conservation
KW - Sustainable development
KW - Wearable computers
KW - Carbon emissions
KW - Changing climate
KW - Domestic heating
KW - Energy demands
KW - Indoor temperature
KW - Save energy
KW - Ubiquitous environments
KW - Ubiquitous computing
U2 - 10.1145/3341162.3354060
DO - 10.1145/3341162.3354060
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450368698
SP - 1090
EP - 1092
BT - UbiComp/ISWC 2019- - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PB - ACM
CY - New York
ER -