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Hometracker: A Household Information Feedback System For Food/Energy/Water Metabolism, Nichole Mackey
Hometracker: A Household Information Feedback System For Food/Energy/Water Metabolism, Nichole Mackey
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The Food, Energy and Water Conscious (FEWCON) project seeks to understand how food, energy and water (FEW) as independent resources within households are connected. In the main study of the project, intervention messages that link household FEW consumption to equivalent climate consequences are pushed to the households. The goal of the FEWCON study is to determine potential intervention messages that influence household FEW consumption behavior.
A key component of the FEWCON study is a web application named HomeTracker (Household Metabolism Tracker) which collects FEW consumption data within households, then uses this data to select consumption-specific feedback to the homeowners. To …