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CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS

  1. Khanal, S., Refati, R., Glandt, K., Xu, S., & Chen, C.F. (September, 2021). Using content analysis and machine learning to identify COVID-19 information relevant to low-income households on social media. IEEE SocialCom.
     

  2. Li, Y., Yamaguchi, Y/, Chen, C-F., & Shimoda, Y. (September, 2021). Spatial variation and historical change in occupant behaviour: statistical analysis and application on household activities and time scheduling. Building Simulation Conference, September 1st-3rd, Belgium.
     

  3. Chien-fei Chen (May, 2021). Assessing socio-demographic, technical, economic and behavioral factors of Nordic electric vehicle adoption and the influence of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) preferences. Science, Technology and Society Conference Graz, May 5-8, 2021.
     

  4. Chen, C. F., Xu, X., Adua, L., & Briggs, M. (August, 2020). Exploring an energy justice issue by analyzing household energy use intensity across income groups. The Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), Virtual.
     

  5. Chow, J., H., Chen, C.-F., Skutnik, A. L., Xu, X., Herkenham, E., & Wang, M. (June 2019). Evolution of activities in a smart grid summer camp for high school STEM students. The Annual Meeting of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), Tampa, Florida.
     

  6. Chen, C. F. & Xu., X. (August, 2019). Energy justice: examining the challenges of affordability, accessorily and practices of energy efficiency among low-income households. The Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), New York.
     

  7. Ju, W., Yao, R., Sun, K. & Chen, C. F (August 2019). Demand response to help mitigate cascading outages: A case study on the 2011 Tornado super outbreak. The IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
     

  8. Aydeniz, M. Chen, C.F., & Skutnik, A. (March 2019). Exploring high-achieving high school students’ understanding of the nature of engineering. The National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Baltimore, MD.
     

  9. Washizu, A., Nakano, S., Chen, C.F., Ishii, H., & Hayashi, Y. (October, 2018). Measurement of 
    demand function for HEMS: comparison between Japan and the United States. EcoBalance 2018, Ryogoku, Japan.
     

  10. Chen, C. F., Benjamin Sovacool, Andrew, Jorgenson, Christine Horne and Emily Kennedy. (August, 2018). Special panel for conceptual frameworks and new frontiers in energy justice: from macro to micro levels.  The Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), Pennsylvania. 
     

  11. Chen, C.F., Xu, X., Duncan, T., Islam, F., Adams, J., & Gilooly, V. (August, 2018). Social order, environmental impacts, and crisis communication: Mining tweets for analysis of hurricane disaster response. The Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association, Pennsylvania. 
     

  12. Xu, X., Chen, C.F., Washizu, A., Ishii, H., & Yashiro, H. (August, 2018). Willingness to pay for home energy management system: A cross-country comparison. The IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, Portland, OR.
     

  13. Washizu, A., Nakano, S., Chen, C.F., Ishii, H., & Hayashi, Y. (March, 2018). Comparison of Consumer Acceptance to HEMS in the U.S. and Japan: Based on Contingent Valuation Method. The 13th Meeting of the Institute of Life Cycle Assessment, Tokyo, Japan.
     

  14. Washizu, A., Nakano, S., Chen, C.F., Ishii, H., & Hayashi, Y. (January, 2018). Comparison between willingness to pay for HEMS in Japan and the United States: based on the results of a large-scale Japan-US common questionnaire survey. The 34th Energy System, Economic and Environmental Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
     

  15. Chen, C. F. (2017, December). The social-psychological factors affecting willingness to adopt smart meters and smart home energy management system in the United States. Presentation to the World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST), University of Cambridge, UK.
     

  16. Chen, C. F. (2017, December). Promoting voluntary peak demand response behaviors in the United States: A special examination across income groups,” Presentation to the World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (WCST), University of Cambridge, UK.
     

  17. Chen, C. F. & Xu, X. (2017, July). Do poor people think differently from rich people? Investigating public acceptance of electricity demand response behaviors across income levels in the United States. Poster presented at the NSF RCN: Energy Impacts Symposium for Fostering Cross Disciplinary Research on Energy Development, Columbus, Ohio. 
     

  18. Chen, C.-F. (2017, June). An interdisciplinary framework and survey for investigating cross-country occupant behavior in buildings: Social-psychological analysis of demand response and smart home management system. Presentation at the Annual American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Summer Conference, Long Beach, CA.
     

  19. Chen, C.-F., Xu, X., Arpan, L., & Loveday, A. (2017, August). Fuel poverty: The role of social-psychological factors affecting low-income households’ acceptance to demand response. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), Montreal, Canada.
     

  20. Chen, C-F., Arpan L., & Xu, X. (2017, April). Predicting consumer interest in electricity demand response programs in the United States: A social-psychological approach. Poster presented at The First International Conference on Energy Research & Social Science, Melia Sitges, Spain.
     

  21. Asadinejad, A., Tomsovic, K., Chen, C. F (2017, September). Sensitivity of incentive-based demand response program to residential customer elasticity. Paper presented at the IEEE North American Power Symposium (NAPS), Denver, Co.
     

  22. Roetzel, A. & Chen, C.-F. (2016, December). Understanding qualitative and quantitative influences on occupant behavior in offices. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, Adelaide. Australia.
     

  23. Asadinejad, A., Varzaneh, M. G., Tomsovic, K., Chen, C. F., & Sawhney, R. (2016, July). Residential customers’ elasticity estimation and clustering based on their contribution at incentive-based demand response. Paper presented at the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, Boston, MA.
     

  24. Chen, C.-F. (2016, January). Beyond technology: Improving occupants' energy efficiency behaviors through social-psychological analysis. Presentation at the Annual American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), Winter Conference, Orlando, FL.
     

  25. Chen, C.-F. & Xu, X. (2015, August). Exploring social psychological factors and barriers affecting low-income residents’ intentions to reduce energy use. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), Chicago, IL.
     

  26. Hu, Q., Fang, X., Li, F., Xu, X., Chen, C. F., & Hu, H. (2015, July). An approach to assess the responsive residential demand to financial incentives (pp. 1-5). Paper presented at the 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Denver, CO.
     

  27. Xu, X. & Chen, C.-F. (2014, December). Investigating residents’ responses to financial incentives and related customer segmentation for promoting demand responses. Poster at the Annual Meeting of Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC), Washington, D.C.
     

  28. Chen, C.-F., Xu, X., Zhao, W., & Sun, J. (2014, August). Privacy concern, energy concern, or money consciousness? Examination of factors influencing residents’ smart meter acceptance. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), San Francisco, CA.
     

  29. Foy, J., Chen, C.-F. & Wills, E. (2014, June). Integrating assembly language programming into high school STEM education. The 121st American Society of Engineering Education Annual Meeting (ASEE), Indianapolis, IN.
     

  30. Chen, C.-F. & Xu, X. (2013, November). Do the right thing or stay comfortable? Exploring social-psychological factors affecting electricity saving among employees in Chinese electric power companies. The Annual Meeting of BECC, Sacramento, CA.
     

  31. Xu, X., & Chen, C.-F. (2013, November). Saving energy for different reasons: Exploring the social-psychological drivers for electricity curtailment and recycling behaviors. Poster at the Annual Meeting of BECC, Sacramento, CA.
     

  32. Xu, X., Chen, C. F., Gao, W., & Li, H. (2013, August). Beyond classical economics: Exploring the impact of social-psychological factors on preference for speed over price and willingness to pay for a faster wireless service plan (pp. 55-60). Paper presented at the 2013 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Xi’an, China.
     

  33. Chen, C.-F. & Shelton, J. (2013, August). Exploring social-psychological factors of affecting electricity use and support of renewable energy policy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), New York, NY.
     

  34. Chen, C.-F., Li, Y., & Banerjee, D. (2012, August). Exploring social-psychological factors related to energy conservation behavior among Chinese employees. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), Denver, CO.
     

  35. Mar, H., Chen, C.-F., & Li, H. (2012, July). Bayesian network structure learning for analyzing the impact of social networks on adolescent heavy drinking. The Add Health Users Conference, NIH Campus, Bethesda, MD.
     

  36. Chen, C.-F. & Shen, X. (2012, May). Do fear-appeal media messages work in China? Effects of law enforcement, perceived consequences, and injunctive norms on drinking- and driving behavior among Chinese students. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, CO.
     

  37. Chen, C.-F. & Shen, X. (2011, October). Social and psychological factors of drinking and driving among Chinese college students. Paper presented at the Proceedings of International Conference on Public Administration, Dongsan City, China.
     

  38. Chen, C.-F., Li, H., & Mar, H. (2011, August). Explaining mechanisms of norms and networks on heavy drinking and alcohol consequences among youth. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), Las Vegas, NV.
     

  39. Chen, L., Markham, P., Chen, C. F., & Liu, Y. (2011, July). Analysis of societal event impacts on the power system frequency using FNET measurements (pp. 1-8). Paper presented at 2011 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Detroit, MI.  
     

  40. Li, H., Chen, C. F., & Lai, L. (2011, June). Propagation of spectrum preference in cognitive radio networks: A social network approach (pp. 1-5). Paper presented at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, Japan.  
     

  41. Chen, C.-F. (2010, August). Norm transmission, interpersonal communication and drinking decision. Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (ASA), Chicago, IL.
     

  42. Tang, L. & Chen, C.-F. (2010, June). Connecting social norms and social networks: A study of unhealthy weight control intentions and internalization of thin ideal in China. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of International Communication Association (ICA), Singapore.
     

  43. Chen, C.-F. & Tang, L. (2009, May). Social norms and sanctioning through social networks: A theoretical study of body image. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of International Communication Association (ICA), Chicago, IL.

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