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Plate & Rate: Using technology to help monitor food intake
Finding new, engaging and understandable ways to visualise food intake and the data associated with it, is something that many people wish for. The process of recording and monitoring the food you eat is fraught with issues that can deter many people, one of these simply being that people forget, others include the recall process [...]
Social Receipt Project
Social Receipt is a research project being undertaken by Tom Leeman, a third year computer science student from the University of Lincoln. The aim of his research is to help understand how technology may be used to make positive changes to our dietary health behaviour in an engaging and social environment. After all, humans are [...]
Northern User Experience Event – Social Media & Energy Use Behaviour Change
The nice folks over at the Northern User Experience (NUX) group recently invited me along to do a talk and interactive session on social media + energy behaviour change at their stylish space at the Round Foundry Media Centre in Leeds. The talk was part of the Leeds Digital Festival and also aligned itself with the World [...]
“Power of Minds” Hack for Honda
Last weekend I was privileged to be invited to participate in a commercial hack day as part of Honda’s “Dream Factory” initiative. Hosted at the Guardian offices and organised by Rewired State, the hack saw 23 developers from across the country feverishly developing prototypes and concepts based on the brief supplied by Honda. This brief [...]
Organisational Change for Sustainability Workshop
As a researcher on our sustainablity project – Electro Magnates – I have always been pro-active in looking for potential collaboration opportunities with other universities doing similar work to our own in the sustainability field, particularly when parallels of behaviour change and technology are present. At a recent CABOT energy workshop in Bristol which Shaun [...]
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