Panel 7. Human and Social Dimensions of Energy Use: Trends and Their Implications

The Effects of Household Characteristics and Energy Use Consciousness on the Effectiveness of Real-Time Energy Use Feedback: A Pilot Study
Daisy Allen and Kathryn Janda, Oberlin College

The Parable of the Frog: Introducing New Temperature Regimes in Multifamily Housing
Michael Bobker, Da-Wei Huang, and Daniel Harris, Association for Energy Affordability

Redefining Homework: Are the Green Schools Program Students Taking Energy Efficiency Home with Them?
Doug Bruchs and Michelle Levy, Quantec, LLC
Swarupa Ganguli, Alliance to Save Energy

Modeling Firms' Energy-Efficiency Investment Drivers in Commercial Buildings
Catherine Cooremans, HEC, University of Geneva

Assessing the Needs of California's Low-Income Population
Kathleen Gaffney, KEMA, Inc.

Actual Versus Perceived Energy Savings: Results from a Low-Income Weatherization Program
John Gardner and Lisa A. Skumatz, Skumatz Economic Research Associates, Inc.

Reducing Standby Consumption in Households: By Means of Communication or Technology?
Kirsten Gram-Hanssen, Danish Building Research Institute
Erik Gudbjerg, Lokalenergi A/S

Measuring the Success Rate of ECMs in New Construction
Lara Greden, Prasad Vaidya, James Douglas, Tom McDougall, and David Eijadi, The Weidt Group
Richard Walker and Fredrick Leuthauser, MidAmerican Energy

Don't Supersize Me! Toward a Policy of Consumption-Based Energy Efficiency
Jeffrey Harris, Rick Diamond, Maithili Iyer, and Christopher Payne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Carl Blumstein, University of California Energy Institute

A Retrofit for Sustainability: Meeting Occupants' Needs within Environmental Limits
Andreas Hermelink, University of Kassel, Center for Environmental Systems Research

Changing How People Think About Energy
Marjorie Isaacson, Larry Kotewa, and Anthony Star, Community Energy Cooperative
Michael Ozog, Summit Blue Consulting

Why Comprehensive Residential Energy Efficiency Retrofits Are Undervalued
Robert L. Knight, Bevilacqua-Knight Inc.
Loren Lutzenhiser and Susan Lutzenhiser, Lutzenhiser Associates

Solar Heating: Like Having a Nuclear Power Plant in the Wardrobe? An Analysis of How People Living with an Alternative Energy System Experience this New Technology
Erica Löfström, Linköping University, Department of Technology and Social Change

Looking at Lifestyle: The Impacts of American Ways of Life on Energy/Resource Demands and Pollution Patterns
Loren Lutzenhiser and Susan Lutzenhiser, Portland State University

Winning Hearts and Minds (and Air Conditioners): Marketing Demand Response to the Reluctant
Mark S. Martinez, Southern California Edison
Christine R. Geltz, Geltz Communications

Quantifying the Rebound Effects of Energy Efficiency and Energy Conserving Behaviour in Sweden
Jonas Nässén and John Holmberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Physical Resource Theory

Using Scenario Analysis to Forecast Long-Term Residential Electric Energy Consumption in California
Alan North and Michael Rufo, Itron, Inc.

The Commercial Energy Consumer: About Whom Are We Speaking?
Christopher Payne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Assessment of LIHEAP and WAP Program Participation and the Effects on Wisconsin's Low-Income Population: An Examination of Program Effects on Arrearage Levels and Payment Patterns
Johna Roth and Nick Hall, TecMarket Works

Adoption Issues for Automatic Demand Response Program by a Multinational Company
Chris Shockman, Shockman Consulting
Juozas Abaravicius, Lund University
Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Sociological Perspectives on Energy Efficiency Program Efforts to Promote the Adoption of High Technology Diagnostics by HVAC Technicians
Rachael Shwom, Michigan State University
John Taylor, Consortium for Energy Efficiency

Effectiveness of Displaying Energy Consumption Data in Residential Buildings: To Know Is to Change
Tsuyoshi Ueno, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry
Kiichiro Tsuji, Osaka University
Yukio Nakano, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry

Fiddling with Thermostats
James Woods, Portland State University