Samenvatting

The Brains4Buildings project aims to develop methods to design new smart building climate management
systems that, among other things, reduce energy consumption, increase comfort and respond flexibly to user
behavior. We set out to develop design guidelines to help B4B stakeholders when designing innovative user
interfaces for such systems.
We built upon our prior user research and requirements (deliverables 3.04 & 3.09) to formulate design
dimensions. The dimensions encompass the different elements of user control and system feedback and the
range in which they can exist. The design dimensions played a key role as a foundation for the design process
and during evaluation and analysis.
Within this work package, we ultimately want to gain a deeper understanding of the elements of the design
dimensions and to formulate design guidelines. Building climate systems are generally designed for the
specific context/building they are built into and thus the goals for the user interfaces can vary greatly.
Therefore, a well-defined use case was necessary, which we defined in collaboration with one of our work
package partners - Spectral.
We chose an iterative approach to design for the use case, moving between design, prototype and test phases,
depending on the insights gained along the way.
Finally, we synthesized a list of key insights that led to design guidelines. In our final deliverable (D3.11) we
aim to evaluate these guidelines.