With our Killawhats project having it’s own site for project reporting purposes over @ killawhats.co.uk, we thought it would be best to do an aggregated update post here every month on how the project is progressing. We know what its like to try keep up with loads of different projects across different channels! Bit of background [...]
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Notes on Birmingham Household Energy Seminar
I recently attended a one day international seminar on ‘Household Energy Consumption, Technology and Efficiency’ where I was invited to do a talk around my HCI focused research in designing technology-supported household energy interventions. The event was held at the University of Birmingham’s European Research Institute. Invited speakers are listed here with abstracts of their [...]
Chipping away at the energy data silo – part 1
As the title suggests, this is the first of two somewhat technical posts describing my experiences of pulling energy data from smart meters across the University of Lincoln (UoL) campus for LiSC’s Electro-Magnates (EM) project. I felt it might be useful or interesting for others to read as a blog post (trying to avoid using ‘opinion’ post!) [...]
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 [...]
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