Marco Pritoni
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
63 Papers
117 Citations
Marco Pritoni is an academic researcher from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Building automation. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 63 publications. Previous affiliations of Marco Pritoni include University of California, Davis.
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Papers
How people use thermostats in homes: A review
TL;DR: A review of the current state of thermostats, evaluating their effectiveness in providing thermal comfort and energy savings, and identifying areas for further improvement or research is provided in this paper, where the authors suggest research needed to design and especially test with users, that can provide more comfortable and economical indoor environments.
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Categories and functionality of smart home technology for energy management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an analysis of home energy management (HEM) products to identify key differences in terms of functionality and quality, and identified opportunities for energy savings (both behavioural and operational) as well as load shifting across most product categories.
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A review of select human-building interfaces and their relationship to human behavior, energy use and occupant comfort
Julia K. Day,Claire McIlvennie,Connor Brackley,Mariantonietta Tarantini,Cristina Piselli,Jakob Hahn,William O'Brien,Vinu Subashini Rajus,Marilena De Simone,Mikkel Baun Kjærgaard,Marco Pritoni,Arno Schlüter,Yuzhen Peng,Marcel Schweiker,Gianmarco Fajilla,Christina Becchio,Valentina Fabi,Giorgia Spigliantini,Ghadeer Derbas,Ghadeer Derbas,Anna Laura Pisello +20 more
TL;DR: A cursory review and discussion of select common building interfaces: windows, window shades/blinds, thermostats, and lighting controls is provided to explore interface characteristics, current design and use challenges, and relationships between building interfaces and occupants.
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Usability of residential thermostats: Preliminary investigations
TL;DR: In this article, the usability of residential thermostats has been investigated and a measurement protocol was developed to quantitatively distinguish usability among five different types of thermostat models, including programmable, programmable and non-programmable.
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Energy efficiency and the misuse of programmable thermostats: The effectiveness of crowdsourcing for understanding household behavior
TL;DR: This paper used Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing service, to investigate thermostat settings and behavior in households and found that 57% of households were occupied nearly all the time, limiting the potential energy savings.