{"id":1903,"date":"2015-07-20T12:54:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2015-07-20T13:04:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T13:04:27","slug":"1903","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/multidisciplinary\/2015\/07\/20\/1903\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ambient Display for Non-domestic Energy Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Part of the EPSRC Vacation Bursaries Scheme 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Student name: <\/strong>Edward Cater<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student degree course: <\/strong>Computer Science<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year of study: <\/strong>2nd<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisor: <\/strong>Enrico Costanza<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vacation Bursary Research project title:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Tell us a bit about you and your chosen research field:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>Having recently completed my second year of Computer Science at Southampton, I am currently undertaking a ten-week internship with the University\u2019s Agents, Interaction &amp; Complexity <em>(AIC)<\/em> research group. I will be working primarily with the HCI-focused members of the research group, designing interactive systems based around reducing energy consumption.<\/p>\n<p><u>Tell us about your specific research project:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>My project focuses on helping building inhabitants become aware of the impact of intervening with the building\u2019s heating system <em>(by manually adjusting the thermostat)<\/em>. To accomplish this, I am developing an ambient, always-on display, suitable for deployment in non-domestic buildings such as libraries. For this reason, I will be developing a web-application for use with a tablet embedded in the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The display will update regularly. Some of the display\u2019s features may include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Current temperature.<\/li>\n<li>Today\u2019s highest and lowest temperatures reached<\/li>\n<li>Current expected cost of heating<\/li>\n<li>Predicted cost of heating if the temperature were to be raised\/lowered by 1\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<li>Some way for the user to interact with the system. Possibly by giving emotional feedback.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course these are just examples. It is entirely possible that features will be removed or added as I iterate the display\u2019s design.<\/p>\n<p>The display is being developed using Django; a Python web framework.<\/p>\n<p><u>Describe any future plans regarding on-going study\/postgraduate research connected to your Vacation Bursary project:<\/u><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thoroughly enjoying my time here and I am now seriously considering post-graduate study at Southampton, perhaps in HCI or possibly even a field I\u2019m yet to experience, such as Machine Learning or Computer Vision.<\/p>\n<p>Before starting the project, web development was completely alien to me and I had minimal experience with Python. This internship has been an opportunity to dedicate myself completely to something new, and I have learned a lot in a very short amount of time. The post-graduates in the labs have been immensely helpful, and I have been exposed to real-world research for the first time. 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