The document discusses the potential impact of IoT on future home energy management, focusing on smart meters and the perceptions of their security. It emphasizes the need for user agency and explores design fiction as a way to address energy demand and perceptions. The authors suggest innovative approaches to energy as a stored resource and highlight the role of temporality in energy management.

1. How can IoT improve energy
management in the future home
Paul Coulton
Chair of Speculative and Game Design

2. A question of demand

3. Perceptions of smart meter security

4. How to improve smart meters
Provide Agency!

5. Design Fiction as World Building

6. Design Fiction as World Building
Design Fiction World
entry points
differing scales
Design Fiction as Worldbuilding
Coulton, Lindley, Sturdee, and Stead 2017

7. Not On Demand

8. energy as stored resource

9. energy temporality

10. Questions
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3Actually I’m an
optical illusion
coming soon!!