User experience aspects of radiant floor heating, Considerations for supporting users mental models
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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2022
Författare
Hasan, Saif
Sörensson, Joel
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Sammanfattning
To promote energy savings, manufacturers implement system features such as programmes
and schedules to their thermostats. Despite these features, the energy
saving levels are not sufficient. The main user interface for the heating system is
the thermostat itself. These thermostats often lack in creating an user experience
that provides enough usability in order to support adequate energy savings.
The thesis is written in collaboration with a company that has the goal to develop
a thermostat for their product line. The aim of the thesis has been to explore the
domain of residential floor heating thermostats and their users, in order to create a
better user experience by supporting users’ mental models of floor heating systems.
The thesis has resulted in 7 design considerations that aims to support manufacturers
during their development of thermostats along with providing research with
knowledge on users behaviour within the heating system domain. The design considerations
are suggestions on how features and information could be developed
and presented for the user in order to improve the user experience. They include
considerations such as Aligning mental models by introducing the user to system
functionality, that through a design concept, Ethermal, is exemplified and aims to
show how the design considerations could be implemented in practice.
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Interface , user experience , interaction design , technology , floor heating , floor heating , mobile application , project , thesis