decarbonet project full details
Champion:
Harith Alani
KMi Director
Participant(s):Keyur Dave, Miriam Fernandez, Lara Piccolo
Timeline:01 Oct 2013 - 30 Sep 2016
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DecarboNet
A Decarbonisation Platform for Citizen Empowerment and Translating Collective Awareness into Behavioural Change
The lack of collective awareness negatively impacts perceived personal efficacy, which hampers efforts to address societal problems. DecarboNet is a multidisciplinary effort to tackle this problem by identifying determinants of collective awareness, translating awareness into behavioural change, and providing novel methods to analyse and visualise the underlying processes.
DecarboNet will research and develop (i) generic tools to co-create knowledge with on-the-fly recommendations of related content from multiple sources; (ii) a cross-platform social media application to provide eco-feedback and engage citizens in games with a purpose; and (iii) methods to measure and predict behavioural change, and to capture collective awareness in a quantitative framework based on diffusion models and resonance patterns in public discourse.
DecarboNet is funded under the FP7 ICT call for Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation - CAPS. CAPS are ICT systems to leverage the crowds and the emerging "network effect" by combining distributed knowledge creation, with data from online social media and from real environments ("Internet of Things") in order to increase engagement and awareness of problems and possible solutions that require collective efforts and novel forms of social innovation.
Partners
- Modul University
- University of Sheffield
- University of Vienna
- Green Energy Option
- World Wide Fund Switzerland
- Waag Society
News
01 Nov 2016
KMi News
09 May 2016
KMi News
25 Nov 2014
KMi News
Fernández, M., Scharl, A., Bontcheva, K. and Alani, H. (2014). User profile modelling in online communities. In: Third International Workshop on Semantic Web Collaborative Spaces (SWCS'14) at the 13th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2014), 19-23 Oct 2014, Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy. https://oro.open.ac.uk/41395/.
Piccolo, L., Baranauskas, C., Fernández, M., Alani, H. and De Liddo, A. (2014). Energy consumption awareness in the workplace: technical artefacts and practices. In: XIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems, 27-31 Oct 2014, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. https://oro.open.ac.uk/40884/.
Rowe, M. and Alani, H. (2014). Mining and comparing engagement dynamics across multiple social media platforms. In: ACM 2014 Web Science Conference, 23-26 Jun 2014, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/40479/.
Piccolo, L., Alani, H., De Liddo, A. and Baranauskas, C. (2014). Motivating online engagement and debates on energy consumption. In: ACM 2014 Web Science Conference, 23-26 Jun 2014, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. https://oro.open.ac.uk/40477/.
