Chasing the Negawatt: Visualization for Sustainable Living

posted: june 23. 2010

This article first appeared on Computing Now June 23 2010.

SIAT professor Lyn Bartram and grad students Johnny Rogers and Kevin Muise who were featured across all IEEE publications on Computing.org. Their original paper was published in the IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May/June 2010, pp. 8–14. This has also appeared in Computing Now.

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Energy and resource management is an important and growing research area at the intersection of conservation, sustainable design, alternative energy production, and social behavior. A significant part of energy management involves the buildings we occupy. Advances in design, materials, and automation have resulted in more efficient buildings, and alternative energy sources have changed the role of buildings and their occupants from simple consumers to partial producers of energy. However, effective energy reduction strategies will require not only efficient buildings but also approaches that help occupants modify their energy use behaviors.

See more at http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2010/0610/rW_CG_ChasingNegawatt.pdf

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May/June 2010, pp. 8–14