Rethinking smart: designing future smart charging.: Rethinking what is smart for a vehicle charging station for families.
2023 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
There is a push by governments and industries to move towards an all-electric future. With the trajectory of an all-electric vehicle future, the development and popularity of smart chargers have increased. Smart chargers are still in the infancy stage of their lifespan. Currently, there is also a lack of social sustainability research in the HCI community. Right now, is the perfect opportunity to research smart chargers. This research has focused on discovering what makes a smart charger “smart” for a family. With the use of participatory design and speculative design approaches in a workshop setting, four themes were discovered. The themes discovered are priority, habitual assistance, local sharable economy, and home environment handler. The workshop allowed the participants to draw their ideal home in the future. In the drawings and the discussions, the families highlighted that they did not see a charging station in their ideal future home. In its place, several of the families drew a computer that could act like a charger and more. This computer would assist the inhabitants of a home with their daily routines.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2023. , p. 27
Keywords [en]
Smart charging, Speculative design, Participatory design, Social sustainability, Smart home, Smart home, family perspective.
National Category
Information Systems, Social aspects Human Computer Interaction
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-51097OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-51097DiVA, id: diva2:1776623
External cooperation
Volvo Cars
Educational program
Master's Programme (120 credits) in Digital Service Innovation, 120 credits
Supervisors
Examiners
2023-06-012023-06-282023-06-28Bibliographically approved