| Persona #2— Research Specialist
William Greenhammer
William Greenhammer is a professor at UC Berkeley’s
College of Environmental Design. He teaches a course in Energy
and Environmental Management that covers subjects in thermal
comfort, building energy use and lighting analysis. He has
been teaching this course for 8 years and is the author of
his course textbook, “Environmental Control Systems.”
He earned his BA in Architecture from University of Oregon,
and a MS and PhD in Environmental Sciences from University
of Vermont. He worked at the California Energy Commissions
for 15 years prior to joining academia. He is an expert in
statistical programs like SPSS, and also uses MS Excel for
charting and graphing.
Currently Professor Greenhammer is co-authoring another book,
“Sustainable Buildings and Environments,” with
two other researchers in the field. He works mainly from his
office at the College of Environmental Design where he spends
around 8-10 hours a day. He is only teaching one course this
semester and holds office hours 2 times a week. When he is
not in his office writing his book or preparing for lectures,
he is working on an Individual Thermostat Research Project
at the Center for the Built Environment (CBE). A few times
a year he attends conferences all around the country to talk
about his work.
He is 43 years old and lives near Tilden Park in Berkeley
with his wife and two daughters, ages 5 and 7. He built a
compost pile in this backyard and plans on installing solar
panels on the roof of his house. He enjoys outdoor activities,
hikes in the park, and plays frisbee at lunch with co-workers.
He often rides his bicycle to work and around town instead
of driving a car.
William's Goals:
- Promoting sustainable building. William wants to be able
to determine which environmentally-friendly building technologies
are successful so he can encourage all participants in the
building industry to incorporate those technologies into
their designs.
- Data access. William’s current research involves
a small set of buildings, but he would like to compare his
data to other buildings surveyed in the past.
- Ease and convenience. Since William has several projects
going on at once, he is not always able to spend a lot of
time analyzing and exploring data and sometimes only has
time to verify or refute hypotheses.
Scenario: William
prepares for a presentation
William is presenting his recent work at the Window Technology
Roundtable in Eugene, Oregon. He needs charts for visual aids
for his talk. He remembers another survey which was performed
a few years ago, discussing similar information to what Hope
has just presented him. He decides to add to Hope's findings.
Steps:
- William is very interested in the data Hope has just
provided him. He sits and reviews this information for a
few minutes. He then decides that it would be very useful
to see these same questions compared to another set of respondents.
- Hope has gone to lunch, so he sits down at her machine.
ArchMiner is open and populated with the information she
has just shown him. He selects another survey from the Control
Panel and adds it to the columns. The questions from this
survey which correspond to the questions displayed in the
previous survey are displayed below a new survey heading.
They are already broken out by their responses.
- William clears response columns that are irrelevant to
the data he wants to compare.
- He is now able to visually compare charts for the two
surveys and finds more support for this hypotheses.
- He exports the charts to the network drive so he can add
them to his presentation.
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