A review of occupant energy feedback research: Opportunities for methodological fusion at the intersection of experimentation, analytics, surveys and simulation

Ardalan Khosrowpour; Rishee K. Jain; John E. Taylor; Gabriel Peschiera; Jiayu Chen; Rimas Gulbinas

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.148

A review of occupant energy feedback research: Opportunities for methodological fusion at the intersection of experimentation, analytics, surveys and simulation

Ardalan Khosrowpour
, Rishee K. Jain
, John E. Taylor^*
, Gabriel Peschiera
, Jiayu Chen
, Rimas Gulbinas

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering

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Occupants are integral elements of a building ecosystem and their behavior can have a substantial impact on energy consumption in buildings. A wide range of energy feedback programs have been developed to make energy consumption more visible and interpretable to occupants and help them learn how to control and save energy. In this paper, we conduct a critical review of the literature related to energy feedback and identify four key methodological approaches to designing and studying energy feedback programs: experiments, analytics, surveys and simulation. Our meta-analysis reveals five research gaps and opportunities for future methodological fusion at the intersection between such approaches, including the analytics-survey, experiments-analytics, experiments-analytics-surveys, simulation-experiments and analytics-simulation interfaces. Future research at these crucial interfaces could provide the deeper understanding necessary to develop energy feedback programs that yield substantial and persistent energy savings.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	304-316
Journal	Applied Energy
Volume	218
Online published	12 Mar 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.148
Publication status	Published - 15 May 2018

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This text is based on work supported by the Department of Energy Building Technologies Program and the National Science Foundation – United States under Grants No. 1142379, 1461549 and 1639266. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Energy or the National Science Foundation.

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