Entries by Arno Scharl

Online survey on behaviour and position towards climate change

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 […]

Best paper award at IHC 2014 in Brazil

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

  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

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.

D6.2.1: Earth Hour Report 2014

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. 

D2.2.1: Text Analytics Tools for Environmental Information Extraction

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 […]

Collective Intelligence for the Common Good

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 […]