Using Conversational Assistants and Connected Devices to Promote a Responsible Energy Consumption at Home †
Department of Information Technologies and Systems, University of Castilla-La Mancha, 13071 Ciudad Real, Cdad. Real, Spain
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Presented at the 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence UCAmI 2019, Toledo, Spain, 2–5 December 2019.
Proceedings 2019, 31(1), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019031032
Published: 20 November 2019
(This article belongs to the Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence UCAmI 2019)
Abstract
Today, households worldwide are being increasingly connected. Mobile devices and embedded systems carry out many tasks supported by applications which are based on artificial intelligence algorithms with the aim of leading homes to be smarter. One of the purposes of these systems is to connect appliances to the power network, as well as to the internet to monitor consumption data among others. In addition, new interaction ways are emerging to manage all these systems. For example, conversational assistants which allow us to interact by voice with devices at home. In this work, we present GreenMoCA, a system to monitor energy consumption data from connected devices at home with the aim of improving sustainability aspects and reducing such energy consumption, supported by a conversational assistant. This system is able to interact with the user in a natural way, providing information of current energy use and feedback based on previous consumption measures in a Smart Home environment. Finally, we assessed GreenMoCA from a usability and user experience approach on a group of users with positive results.
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Fontecha, J.; González, I.; Salas-Seguín, A. Using Conversational Assistants and Connected Devices to Promote a Responsible Energy Consumption at Home. Proceedings 2019, 31, 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019031032
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Fontecha J, González I, Salas-Seguín A. Using Conversational Assistants and Connected Devices to Promote a Responsible Energy Consumption at Home. Proceedings. 2019; 31(1):32. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019031032
Chicago/Turabian StyleFontecha, Jesús, Iván González, and Alberto Salas-Seguín. 2019. "Using Conversational Assistants and Connected Devices to Promote a Responsible Energy Consumption at Home" Proceedings 31, no. 1: 32. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019031032
