Augmentation of an institute’s kitchen: An ambient auditory display of electric power consumption

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Groß-Vogt, Katharina
Weger, Marian
Höldrich, Robert
Hermann, Thomas
Bovermann, Till
Reichmann, Stefan
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Efficient feedback on energy consumption is regarded as one step towards a more sustainable lifestyle. Sonification is very apt to convey such information continuously in an ambient and effective way. This paper presents a pilot system for sonifying the electric power consumption of an institute’s kitchen. The reverberation of the kitchen is changed depending on the actual consumption and its difference to a weekly baseline. If the actual consumption is low, it is mapped to a plausible kitchen reverberation. If it is high compared to the baseline, the reverberation becomes unnatural. Evaluating the system gave insights on perceptibility and acceptance of auditory augmentation in a semi-home context.
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2018-06
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