{"title":"Simulating Electricity Consumption Pattern for Household Appliances using Demand Side Strategies: A Review","authors":"P. Ozoh, M. Apperley","doi":"10.1145/2808047.2808057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2808047.2808057","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates research work related to the modelling and simulation of household electricity consumption with a view to developing a simulation to evaluate the effectiveness of demand-side management mechanisms. The eventual aim of the research is to be able to model household consumption down to the level of individual appliance use in order to explore and assess the impact of different demand-side strategies, both in individual household consumption, and on overall grid balance. The focus of this paper is to survey relevant research on simulation of household consumption, potential demand-side strategies and their impact, and modelling techniques for residential consumption. From this review, the paper provides a number of pointers for future effort in the area of modelling the impact of demand-side management strategies and techniques.","PeriodicalId":112686,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126162315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An interactive spreadsheet model for visualizing dairy farm data","authors":"S. Gibbs, Kate Cromie, R. Pellow","doi":"10.1145/2808047.2808048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2808047.2808048","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of an interactive spreadsheet model (INT-VIS) developed to give users quick access to bespoke visualization representations of data from a dairy demonstration farm. Dairy farming has a long history in New Zealand with the country exporting ninety-five percent of the annual milk production. Demonstration Farms, such as the one which is the focus of this paper, have been established by educational institutes and industry groups as a way of promoting best practice dairying for this fast growing industry. One of the aims of such farms is to produce and share data so that other farmers will benefit from the information sourced. Typically, the information from the South Island Dairy Development Centre (SIDDC) demonstration farm at Lincoln University is collected weekly, entered into a spreadsheet, graphs and charts produced on an adhoc basis and shared with stakeholders by way of pdf documents on the organisation website. This paper describes the first steps in developing an interactive spreadsheet model to allow users to create their own bespoke visualizations.","PeriodicalId":112686,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130769585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","authors":"A. Hinze, D. Nichols, M. Masoodian","doi":"10.1145/2808047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2808047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":112686,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117248519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Determinants of Patients' Intention to Adopt Diabetes Self-Management Applications","authors":"Ananthidewi Maniam, J. Dhillon, N. Baghaei","doi":"10.1145/2808047.2808059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2808047.2808059","url":null,"abstract":"Despite significant advances in medicine, diabetes mellitus remains a major health problem among diabetes patients (diabetics). Diabetes in Malaysia has become increasingly critical along with diabetes complications. Diabetes Self-Management Applications (DSMA) are impactful patient-centered tools that has immense potential in enabling diabetics to manage their health conditions and thereby prevent complications. This study identifies factors that influence the intention to adopt DSMA by diabetics in Malaysia. The aim is to develop a research model to represent the adoption of DSMA amongst diabetics in Malaysia. Previous work is reviewed to develop the proposed model which comprised of constructs from established models and othper constructs from the literature. To test the developed model, a quantitative approach was employed and established questionnaires were administered as research instrument for data collection. The findings indicate that Perceived Financial Risk, Perceived Privacy and Security Risk, Technology Anxiety and Facilitating Conditions have significantly positive relationship with the intention to adopt DSMA. Findings from this study serve as a guideline for DSMA developers in understanding the core factors that influence the adoption and use of diabetes health applications by diabetics.","PeriodicalId":112686,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115668437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data Driven Usability: A Case for Adaptive Interfaces in Voice Based Menu Systems","authors":"Siddhartha Asthana, Pushpendra Singh","doi":"10.1145/2808047.2808052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2808047.2808052","url":null,"abstract":"Interactive Voice Response (IVR) systems provide access to information over the phone by responding to a pre-defined menu either through key presses or voice commands. Despite being in use for a long period, IVR systems are still considered time-consuming and frustrating to use. In this work, we show that a significant portion of the call duration goes in selecting the correct menu option. Since the menu options are presented sequentially, more time is required to access menu options appearing later in the sequence, therefore, to reduce this, relevant menu options must appear early in the sequence. In this paper, we present our data driven prediction algorithms for adaptive rearrangement of menu options so that the relevant options appear early. We also show that adaptive approaches to decide the menu structure outperform existing static menu based IVR system. We have designed, deployed, and evaluated our schemes in the real world study.","PeriodicalId":112686,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 15th New Zealand Conference on Human-Computer Interaction","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124845419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}