We collected responses from 212 Internet users over the UK, Europe, North and South America related to what kind of information people like to see and share on social media related to energy saving and climate change, pro-environmental behaviour, interest on reducing energy consumption, and so on. The survey was promoted online (Intranets and social media) during September […]
The paper “Energy Consumption Awareness in the Workplace: Technical Artefacts and Practices” presented at IHC 2014 in Brazil received the Best Paper Award. It reports a study executed in the Open University evaluating the role of three different technologies to promote energy awareness in the working environment: a debate tool, smart monitors, and a tangible device […]
Information Extraction Demos and Services We provide a number of GATE–based tools as both demos and web services, comprising ClimateMeasure: extracts useful indicators of climate change such as “energy use”, “carbon pollution”, etc. for particular locations, together with measurable effects such as percentages, measurements etc. and the relevant dates. ClimaPinion: aims to annotate documents with terms […]
ClimaTerm – GATE based web services. This DecarboNet term recognition service aims to annotate documents with terms related to climate change. Where appropriate, these terms are matched and linked to the instance of that term in relevant Linked Open Data ontologies.
A paper tool to engage families with energy savings. How to use the Utility Kit Download it
This deliverable summarizes the campaign activities of WWF Switzerland before, during and after the global Earth Hour campaign in 2014 and includes state of the art technology to analyse online media impact of the national and global Earth Hour campaign. View the document.
This document provides a report to accompany the three web services for environmental information extraction delivered. The web services provide tools to perform entity disambiguation, recognition of environmental terms, and extraction of environmental indicators respectively. Since the services are still in development, and this is only the first version, users are able to just make […]
The workshop Collective Intelligence for the Common Good features the CATALYST project. It was organised by the The Open University’s in its London campus on September 28-29, 2014, gathering people with complementary experiences and very keen to establish an Open Research and Action Community Network. Have a look at the participants: Ci4 cg madness We contributed to the […]
This document summarizes functionalities, technical key information and designated use of WWF Switzerland’s Mobilisation and Petition Tool for large scale awareness campaigns in the Decarbonet framework. See the document.
This deliverable summarises the efforts on developing novel semantic models for capturing and infering information about the user in different context (his/her behaviour, needs, personality, preferences, etc.). Link to the deliverable.