Deliberative User Approach in a Living Lab (DUALL)

Information

The aim of DUALL is to understand the role of ICT in reducing energy consumption of a large scale public building through the design of a socio-technical ICT interface connecting building users to their electricity consumption.

Specific objectives include:

  1. To design and test an ICT tool connecting building users to their energy consumption;
  2. To engage in an innovative, deliberative upstream approach in the design of the application;
  3. To understand the extent to which building users can impact the performance of the environment they are in.
Website:
http://duall.dmu.ac.uk/

Contact

Contact Name:
Dr Richard Bull
Role / Job Title:
RCUK Research Fellow
Contact Email:
rbull@dmu.ac.uk

Blog

Duall Deliberation meeting presentation slides

Fri 2nd July, 2010

Intro to duall .

Build it and they will come!

Thu 1st July, 2010

Build it and they will come . . .* So, after one false start, we finally got underway with our ‘deliberation’ meetings. To be honest I had forgotten how difficult it is to get a group of busy people in the same place at the same time. Looking back on why we had to postpone [...]

Duall ICT tool Update 1

Wed 30th June, 2010

One of the objectives of the Duall project is to understand the potential of ICT to reduce energy consumption. Deliberative engagement will be used to ‘engage’ building users in conversations around energy, sustainability and ICT. The deliberative process with building users will outline the design of an ICT interface that connects users to their electricity [...]

News

Energy Consumption at De Montfort University

Energy Consumption at De Montfort University

Fri 8th October, 2010

The DUALL project at De Montfort University is looking into methods which enable building users to access energy consumption data in order to change behaviour. Central to this is understanding .. Read More »