Eliciting requirements for demand response service design to households: A pilot study

Ruzanna Chitchyan; Palvi Shah; Caroline Bird

doi:10.1145/3319008.3319355

Eliciting requirements for demand response service design to households: A pilot study

Ruzanna Chitchyan, Palvi Shah, Caroline Bird

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Abstract

Demand response has been discussed as one of the key means through which peak energy demand could be ameliorated. A wide variety of research and trial studies have been conducted on this topic. Yet, there has been no requirements elicitation exercise undertaken to explicitly state the requirements that a smart appliance automation service must address to be accepted by the households at large. This paper presents a pilot study on just such an exercise. We present the key themes from the pilot interview study. From these themes we identify several groups of requirements, such as need to retain ultimate appliance control (e.g., through manual overrides); need for discriminating between specific appliances and their contexts for automation; and the need to be able to associate personal meaning to the service participation process by setting own goals.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2014-17 2019
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	299-304
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450371452
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3319008.3319355
Publication status	Published - 15 Apr 2019
Event	23rd Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Conference, EASE 2019 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 14 Apr 2019 → 17 Apr 2019

Conference

Conference	23rd Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Conference, EASE 2019
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	14/04/19 → 17/04/19

Structured keywords

Cabot Institute Low Carbon Energy Research
demand side response
energy management
energy efficiency
DSR

Keywords

Demand side response
DSR
Energy efficiency
Energy management
Engineering
Grounded theory
Requirements

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Chitchyan, R., Shah, P., & Bird, C. (2019). Eliciting requirements for demand response service design to households: A pilot study. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2014-17 2019 (pp. 299-304). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3319008.3319355

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Chitchyan, R, Shah, P & Bird, C 2019, Eliciting requirements for demand response service design to households: A pilot study. in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2014-17 2019. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 299-304, 23rd Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering Conference, EASE 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14/04/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3319008.3319355

Eliciting requirements for demand response service design to households : A pilot study. / Chitchyan, Ruzanna; Shah, Palvi; Bird, Caroline.

Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2014-17 2019. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. p. 299-304.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

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Chitchyan R, Shah P, Bird C. Eliciting requirements for demand response service design to households: A pilot study. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2014-17 2019. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2019. p. 299-304 https://doi.org/10.1145/3319008.3319355

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