Smart Meter Timepiece

September 23, 2010 at 4:09 PM · Filed under digital design, energy, making it public, service design, time, visualization

CSTEP has embarked on testing of smart meters for electricity consumption. This yields a ton of data, with measurements of each of three phases being taken at 5 sec intervals. I did some sketches of those data and how they might be integrated into a timepiece showing time, electricity consumption, and phase.

Three colors indicate each of the three phases.
Time is mapped by seconds (colored), minutes (grey), and hours (grey).
On the left, a linear scale shows the variation in consumption.

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Time Perspectives

June 8, 2010 at 11:45 AM · Filed under boundary objects, cognitive justice, community interaction design, design ecology, futures, preferences, time

Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world. Via RSA

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