25 energy ambassadors from the residents' association (Hyresgästföreningen) that lives in Hyresbostäder in Norrköping visited Interactive Institute in Eskilstuna may 16. Carin Torstensson gave them an inspiring talk about Interactive Institutet's research results and Stina Wessman demonstrated some of the design prototypes that is a result from the research.
Carin Torstensson and Cecilia Katzeff are invited to the Swedish Energy Agency's yearly conference "Energiutblick 2012". They will talk about how to engage people to be active energy consumers in the smart grid....
The journal paper "User centred design and evaluation of EnergyCoach - an interactive energy service for households" is now published in Behaviour and Information Technology, special issue on "Services and Human-Computer Interaction - New Opportunities". Authors are Cecilia Katzeff, Åsa Nyblom, Sara Tunheden and Carin Torstensson. Contact Cecilia Katzeff for reprints of the article.
Carin Torstensson, the Interactive Institute, Anna-Karin Hatt, minister of IT and energy, and Johan Söderström, CEO of ABB will talk about smart grid at Centerpartiet's community days in Västerås, February 4th.
Interactive Institute has together with Fortum, ABB, Electrolux, JM, NCC, HSB, ByggVesta and KTH secured funding from VINNOVA in order to create the first active house in Stockholm Royal Seaport, a new urban district in Stockholm....
The Interactive Institute’s department in Eskilstuna currently manages
several projects within smart grid and sustainable cities, all related
to energy consumption. One of the projects, called The Active House in...
Carin Torstensson held a speach about why design is an important ingredient in the new energy system January 19th at the Clarion Sign hotel in Stockholm. This conference was arranged by the Swedish Energy Agancy and is the first in a serie of several conferences about smart grids and its new opportunities.
IVA has invited a Chinese delegation of researchers who do research within the area of smart grid together with Swedish research organizations within the same field....
The project OnSite - Visualization of environmental information in public spaces, has been granted A-funding from Vinnova's program for challenge driven innovation. The purpose of OnSite is to combine...
