Exploring past home improvement experiences to develop future energy saving technologies
Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University)Published 1 January 2013Open access
Becky Mallaband, Victoria Haines, Victoria Mitchell
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This paper describes a participatory data collection tool designed for use within a multidisciplinary energy research project.The tool was designed to encourage participants to narrate the story of their past home improvement experiences.The User Centred Designers within the team then used these stories to extract user requirements for use by engineering specialists within the project team.
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