Appliances Facilitating Everyday Life - Electricity Use Derived from Daily Activities [Elektronisk resurs]
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Ellegård, Kajsa 1951- (författare)
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WREC 2011
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Widén, Joakim (författare)
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Vrotsou, Katerina 1980- (författare)
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Linköpings universitet Institutionen för tema (utgivare)
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- Linköpings universitet Filosofiska fakulteten (utgivare)
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Alternativt namn: Linköping University. Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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Se även: Universitetet i Linköping. Filosofiska fakulteten
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- Linköpings universitet Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap (utgivare)
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Alternativt namn: ITN
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Alternativt namn: Linköping University. Department of Science and Technology
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- Linköpings universitet Tekniska högskolan (utgivare)
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Alternativt namn: Linköpings universitet. Tekniska fakulteten
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Alternativt namn: Linköpings tekniska högskola
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Alternativt namn: Tekniska högskolan vid Linköpings universtiet
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Alternativt namn: LiTH
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Alternativt namn: Linköping University. Institute of Technology
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Se även: Universitet i Linköping Tekniska högskolan
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Built Environment Energy Systems Group (medarbetare)
- Linköping University Electronic Press 2011
- Engelska.
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Serie: Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 1650-3686
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Ingår i: Proceeding from the World Renewable Energy Congress - Sweden, 8-13 May, 2011. ; 1031-1038
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Sammanfattning
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- The purpose of this paper is to present how, using a visualization method, electricity use can be derived from the everyday activity patterns of household members. Target groups are, on the one hand, professionals in the energy sector and energy advisors who need more knowledge about household energy use, and, on the other hand, household members wanting to reduce the energy use by revealing their own habits and thereby finding out how changed activity performance may influence electricity use. The focus is on the relation between utilizing electric appliances to perform everyday life activities and the use of electricity. The visualization method is based on the time-geographic approach developed by Hägerstrand and includes a model that estimates appliance electricity use from household members’ activities. Focus, in this paper, is put on some basic activities performed to satisfy daily life needs: cooking and use of information, communication and entertainment devices. These activities appear frequently in the everyday life of households, even though not all household members perform them all. The method is applied on a data material comprising time-diaries written by 463 individuals (aged 10 to 85+) in 179 households in different parts of Sweden. The visualization method reveals when and for how long activities that claim electric appliances are performed by which individual(s). It also shows electricity load curves generated from the use of appliances at different levels, such as individual, household and group or population levels. At household level the method can reveal which household members are the main users of electricity, i.e. the division of labour between household members. Thereby it also informs about whom could be approached by energy companies and energy advisors in information campaigns. The main result of the study is that systematic differences in activity patterns in subgroups of a population can be identified (e.g. men and women) but that directed information based on these patterns has to be made with care and with the risk of making too broad generalizations.
Ämnesord
- Social Sciences (hsv)
- Samhällsvetenskap (hsv)
- Engineering and Technology (hsv)
- Teknik och teknologier (hsv)
Indexterm och SAB-rubrik
- electricity use; everyday activity sequence; visualization; activity pattern; load curve
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