Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Dr. Laura M. Arpan is the Theodore Clevenger Professor of Communication and Director of Doctoral Studies in the School of Communication at Florida State University. Dr. Arpan’s research examines risk perceptions, human motivation and responses to pro-environmental messages, interventions, and related technologies. Her projects focus on the effectiveness of promotional messages and outreach efforts designed to encourage sustainable behaviors such as energy conservation and efficiency. Recent work has examined Americans’ attitudes toward energy conservation and sustainability, factors enhancing the effectiveness of information campaign messages promoting energy-use-reduction and sustainability
Yohei Yamaguchi came to CURENT in Knoxville from March 23th-30th, and on March 27th
March 27, 2018
​
He presented: “Activity-based Community/Urban-scale Modelling of Building Energy Demand” to all CURENT faculty and students. A future collaboration will be also discussed.
​
The building sector is a significant contributor to national carbon emissions and has considerable potential in fostering reduction and flexibility in energy demand and carbon emissions. Community/urban-scale modelling of building energy demand has attracted attention worldwide as it allows the quantification of potential changes in energy demand and evaluates the performance of energy systems. It also provides a scope through which to explore technical options and prospective pathways to develop sustainable energy systems. One of the most critical weaknesses of conventional approches is that the lower time and spatial resolution than those required to address socio-technical issues. We propose activity-based modelling, to overcome these weaknesses, in which the activity and practice of people in everyday life is simulated and building energy demand is quantified accordingly. Energy demand models integrating people’s activity and practice improves spatio-temporal resolution of models by quantifying energy demand in a bottom-up approach, through which the structure determining energy demand in the real world is replicated. This further enhances the capabilities of community/urban-scale models (e.g. consideration of demand response in power system analysis). This presentation briefly explains modelling methodologies and their applications to tackle the above mentioned challenges.