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Keeping energy visible? Exploring how householders interact with feedback from smart energy monitors in the longer term
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In this article, the authors report on how, over a 12-month period, UK householders interacted with feedback on their domestic electricity consumption in a field trial of real-time displays or smart energy monitors.About:Â
This article is published in Energy Policy.The article was published on 2013-01-01. It has received 465 citations till now.read more
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Comfort, cleanliness and conveniencethe social organization ofnormality
TL;DR: Shove as discussed by the authors investigated the evolution of these changes, as well as the social meaning of the practices themselves, concluding that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces, and that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption.
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Social barriers to the adoption of smart homes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore social barriers to the adoption of smart homes through the analysis of expert views and public attitudes, including how these vary by expertise, life-stage and location.
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Smart homes and their users: a systematic analysis and key challenges
TL;DR: A systematic analysis of peer-reviewed literature on smart homes and their users takes stock of the dominant research themes and the linkages and disconnects between them, resulting in an organising framework for future research that identifies the presence or absence of cross-cutting relationships between different understandings of smart home users.
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A Systematic Review of the Smart Home Literature: A user perspective
TL;DR: A systematic review of the smart home literature and survey the current state of play from the users' perspective, which presents a comprehensive view of smart home definitions and characteristics.
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Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
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TL;DR: Giddens as mentioned in this paper has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration
TL;DR: Giddens as discussed by the authors has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.
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Beyond the ABC: Climate Change Policy and Theories of Social Change:
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