Earth Hour brings together people around the globe to celebrate the beauty of our planet.
Join us at 8:30 pm on Saturday 28th March by turning off the lights for one hour.
Be part of it, use #YourPower and share your #EarthHour experience on social media.
More information:
Earth Hour 2015 Official Video
DecarboNet Earth Hour 2014 report
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 and October of 2014 and has been applied to inform the design of an online platform for Decarbonet. The results are available here:
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 to motivate engagement (an energy tree). The study also analysis the content of the online debate, identifying relevant information to be provided to raise energy awareness colectivelly.
This study is the result of a joint effort between DecarboNet and CATALYST.
Scharl, A., Reyes, C. and Hubmann-Haidvogel, A. (2014). Supporting the Collaborative Editing of Documents with Real-Time Content Recommendations. 13th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems (IHC-2014). Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil: ACM Press: 341-344.
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:
We contributed to the discussions by presenting our experiments on engagement with energy saving.
Arno Scharl presented “DecarboNet in a Nutshell” during the CAPS 2014 Conference – The 1st International Event on Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation.
The Conference took place in Brussels in 1-2 July 2014.
Slides are available at:
Weichselbraun, A., Streiff, D. and Scharl, A. (2014). Linked Enterprise Data for Fine Grained Named Entity Linking and Web Intelligence. 4th International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics (WIMS-2014). Thessaloniki, Greece: ACM Press.
Happened inBrussels, 3-4 Feb 2014.
Walter Rafelsberger participates at a workshop in Madrid on open source distributed platforms for peer production and presents the planned collaborative features of the DecarboNet platform.