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What are your habits of energy use at home?

The survey we propose, together with laboratory studies, users tests and field observations, aims at the development of the EnergyLife Software (by BeAware).

EnergyLife allows the user to control the level of energy consumption of each single appliance by mobile phone, thus improving the management of one’s own energy consumption. The system is currently being tested in 8 households in Europe: your answers (anonymous) will provide additional information to improve the system. The survey requires about 10 minutes to fill in, and you can find it following this link, in 4 different languages:

www.energyawareness.eu/beaware/research/survey.

EnergyLife has been developed by European research project "Beaware” (Boosting Energy Awareness), which lasts 3 years (May 2009-2011) and is carried out by a consortium of European partners including the Human Technology Lab, Dept. of General Psychology, University of Padova (htlab.psy.unipd.it) that promotes - among other things - this online survey.

Further information, downloadable material and the updated description of current activities of the consortium can be found at www.energyawareness.eu. A recent television report presenting the project was broadcasted by Euronews and you can watch it on the Internet following the link (http://www.euronews.net/2010/02/12/energy-saving/).