Online survey on behaviour and position towards climate change

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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:  

decarbonet_survey_results

Best paper award at IHC 2014 in Brazil

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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.

 

Information Extraction Demos and Services

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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 and sentiment related to climate change. Sentiment is classified into positive, negative and neutral polarity, as well as more fine-grained emotions such as fear, anger, joy etc. There are versions for both English and German.
  • Mention Disambiguation: aims to annotate user mentions in tweets according to their status as people, locations or organisations.
  • Earth Hour Tracker: monitors Twitter to build easily digestible snapshots of how people feel about the topics being discussed in relation to Earth Hour 2016, which was held on the 19th of March 2016.

ClimaTerm

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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.

Utility Toolkit

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A paper tool to engage families with energy savings.

D6.2.1: Earth Hour Report 2014

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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

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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 use of the web service; the final version will be made open source.

Link to the report.

DecarboNet Editor Presented at IHC-2014

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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.

Collective Intelligence for the Common Good

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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.

D 6.1: Mobilisation and Petition Tool

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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.