Melanie Herrmann

Associate Lecturer (Teaching)
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UCLIC, University College London
66 - 72 Gower Street
London, WC1E 6EA
United Kingdom
I care about environmentalism (sustainable business management, circular economy, biodiversity) and social justice (climate justice, oppression, intersectionality).
My work looks at how technology affects users, shapes learning, decisions, and behaviour. Specifically, I focus on users' comprehension of data and information visualisations.
Brief biography
Most recently, I was a Researcher in Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Cambridge, working with data science & design agency Vizzuality as industrial partner. My work concerned the visual communication of environmental data and its impact on learning and decision making.
I completed my PhD at UCLIC in 2018. My background is in Psychology, BSc & MSc.
Research Publications
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Melanie Herrmann, Enrico Costanza, Duncan Brumby, T Harries, Graças Brightwell M das, S Ramchurn, N Jennings | Exploring Domestic Energy Consumption Feedback through Interactive Annotation | 2022 | Energy Efficiency, Journal article |
Melanie Herrmann, Duncan Brumby, L Cheng, XMP Gilbert, T Oreszczyn | An empirical investigation of domestic energy data visualizations | 2021 | International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Journal article |
Melanie Herrmann, Duncan Brumby, T Oreszczyn, XMP Gilbert | Does data visualization affect users’ understanding of electricity consumption? | 2017 | Building Research and Information, Journal article |
Melanie Herrmann, Duncan Brumby, T Oreszczyn | Watts your usage? A field study of householders’ literacy for residential electricity data | 2017 | Energy Efficiency, Journal article |
Melanie Herrmann, Duncan Brumby, T Oreszczyn | How much electricity do you use at home? An investigation into householders’ literacy for comprehending domestic electricity data | 2016 | Behave 2016: 4th European Conference on Behaviour and Energy Efficiency, Conference paper (text) |
Melanie Herrmann | Smart energy feedback in the home: the effect of disaggregation and visualisation on householders' comprehension of electricity data | 1900 | Thesis / Dissertation |