TUT - P007
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P007
Works at a restaurant Doesn't know much about electricity use
Summary Table
- $.48 daily usage amount
- Doesn't really get my question
- $15 monthly reduction from last year
- 3.7 kW use per day
- Hard for him to find the daily cap for aug 2012
- Confused it with last year's daily average consumption (aug 2011)
- Maybe take out Average daily use and cost for historical consumption
Speedometer
- Green area is where you would want to reduce the amount to
- Did not interpret the speedometer as measuring accumulation, rather as reduction
- Did not know how to change goals and percent reduction by looking at the remote
- Seems like this is the only participant who did not get how the remote worked
- Red means that you're using "more" or too much
- Did not know what the numbers on the speedometer represented
- Thought the red dotted line represented normal use
- Does not know what 2.65 kW/h represented
- Thought it was referring to the number on the dial
- Then thought it was referring to the dotted line
- Understood that 10-110 represented kW consumed
- Extrapolated that 2.65 kW/h would lead to 50 kWh consumed in a day
- Understood that yellow meant close to over consumption
Calendar
- Did not know what the hypothetical day we were on
- Maybe make it more salient on the image (thicker border)
- Possibly change the color of the total $ and total kWh from grey to something else
- Bill to date: $90.09
- Consumption: 693
- Confused cumulative and daily use when asked what the consumption was yesterday
- Was confused as to why not all the days were filled up
- Understood what the color scheme was, but could not identify how they were calculated
- How do we get people to think about the numbers on the summary table with the calendar?
Tips
- Did not understand what the tip was about and how it related to the reduction goal
- Pointed out that you need to turn the thermostat up to save energy
- Couldn't figure out how to switch tips using the remote
kWh information
- The information makes him want to go with CFLs from now on, but he won't see the benefits until 7 years from now or if it really helped or not
- Either he wasn't thinking clearly or did not think his answers through before telling me. He had a hard time explaining to me why it would have to be 7 years until he saw benefits. He said that he'd have to consider the savings after 7 years