Prototyping energy usage visualization

So this time we were asked to go back to our users from last week and try some of our initial ideas in real life. My idea was to visualize energy usage of devices but putting an orange sticker every 30 minutes on every device that was turned on.

I did this with my roommate and the results were very surprising. Beside noticing how many lights we have turned on all the time my friend who is very conscious about energy usage realized that he is leaving his laptop turned on every night. This problem with devices is called electricity vampires. This happens when device is not used but still use standby power.

We really liked the idea about stickers so did faculty so we build 2 low resolution prototypes.

At this stage we already know what we want to develop as our finale deliverable. It will be a higher resolution video prototype with some probes and some post processing if needed.