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Paper by Lucid team members published in international journal
January 2, 2007
Oberlin, OH - Lucid team members co-author a new paper that is published in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education titled, "Dormitory residents reduce electricity consumption when exposed to real-time visual feedback and incentives."
The goal of the study was to assess how different resolutions of socio-technical feedback, combined with incentives, encourage students to conserve resources. The paper highlights the technologies provided by Lucid to capture, process and display real-time data on electricity and water use. Lucid provided customized versions of its Building Dashboard® software for Oberlin. The website can be found at www.oberlin.edu/dormenergy.
Overall, the introduction of feedback, education and incentives resulted in a 32 percent reduction in electricity use. Dormitories that received high-resolution feedback were more effective at conservation, reducing their electricity consumption by as much as 55 percent.
The results of this research provide evidence that real-time resource
feedback systems, when combined with education and an incentive, interest, motivate and empower
college students to reduce resource use in dormitories.
Download the IJSHE paper here »
About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
