TUT - P008
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P008
- Works in merchandising
- Conserves use as much as possible
- Could choose suppliers
- Would like to see monthly feedback, see it spike
- Try to find out how to cut down
- $40 a month, but not sure kWh
- Learning about electricity use is a necessity
- Wishes PA was more progressive
Summary Table
- Table was talking about historical consumption and usage breakdown
- Menu could bring up information on the screen
- Seems to be missing what to do to reach these goals
- Does not want another product esp if not sure where to put it
- $150 monthly use
- 32.7 average use
- $4.84 average daily cost
Calendar
- High, medium, low categories makes her think what she does on these days
- Interesting to see which days you use high or low "food for thought"
- She asks, "What is a critical peak day?"
- $90.09 monthly cost to date
- 22.72 kWh / $2.95 used yesterday
- The cut offs for green (under $4.17), yellow, red (above $4.98)
- Extrapolates $120 by the end of the month
- Muted colors were deceiving, thought they weren't colored correctly
- Would compare "today" with other Tuesdays
- Strat building schedules and habits, some activities each day of the week
- Would be interested to see high temperature each day
- Clothes washing
- AC
- Attribute actiosn to temperature and identify consumption behavior that are related
Speedometer
- Looks like a meter in the basement
- Dotted line is the target at 38 kWh
- Consumption now 29 kWh
- Asks if its, "Cumulative or on hourly basis?"
- Makes sense to be cumulative
- Makes better if the screen told her what time it was
- Thought red numbers assumed the actual usage
- Note to self: need to rethink this
- Fairly close to target or a bit over the target based on rate of consumption shown on displays
- Seems like its too much for what its telling me
- Does not want to take graphic out
- Text - how you are tracking towards your goal unless you do something different you will go over
- Assumes the #s 10-110 are usage
- Does not like the fact that it looks like a "car" speedometer
- Recommends a bar graph
- 3 bars
- 1 where I want to be
- 3:20 where you are
- If you don't this is where you will be at the end of the day
Tips
- Generic suggestion
- Don't want to see generic tips
- Want them specific to me and based on my usage
- Asks, "If I turned it off the last 3 nights and I see this again, what's the use?"
- Wants to see more tips to determine whether they're generic
- Wouldn't mind if the tips were on a website
- Cycling tips is something she would want to avoid
- Make an "off" option
- Make clear that its a new took so she looks at them
- Seasonal changes require different tips
- Okay with buying appliances and rebate programs as tips
- But suggesting to buy a new appliance alone without a rebate would be insulting because not everyone has the luxury to buy new appliances
