An Interview Study of Households Living Under a Domestic Hot-Water Consideration Score
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 58 residents across 34 households living under a smart hot-water system's Household Thermal Consideration Score, finding that its overnight throttling judgements are absorbed into household blame and ritual rather than into the consideration the score was built to encourage. An ablation removing the score's neighbour-relative term left its distribution statistically unchanged.
| Authors | Iben Chikere , Hedvig Anyanwu , Sunniva Balogun |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.96x7ub |
| Pages | 6 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_96x7ub,
author = {Iben Chikere and Hedvig Anyanwu and Sunniva Balogun},
title = {It Decided We Were Being Difficult: An Interview Study of Households Living Under a Domestic Hot-Water Consideration Score},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.96x7ub},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-qualitative-interview-96x7ub/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}