To promote sustainable development amid increasing global energy demand, costs, and limited resources, households should manage their domestic resource consumption more consciously. This paper presents a qualitative study conducted by Ubicomp researchers of 15 households' management practices of water, electricity, and natural gas systems. The study aims to determine the most effective tools for managing residential resources. The paper provides recommendations resulting from the research, including designing for visibility of resource consumption, considering the difference between individual and collective institution design, avoiding the green divide, making sustainability a core value of design, and acknowledging the challenge of sustainability and ethnography.
This paper investigates, through user cases, how to design the most effective tools for managing residential resources, so the principles are as follows：
•Improving vs. fundamentally changing lifestyles.
•Ambient Awareness
•Formative User Studies
Discussion and reflection：
The study's conclusions on housing resource consumption are applicable to other green designs, which are very precious. It's crucial to avoid excluding the poor from green living (green divide). Critics often target sustainability technology solutions that consume the same resources as conventional approaches, highlighting the importance of making sustainability a core value of design and utilizing green energy to power technology solutions.
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