Research Projects

SINAIS

Start date:

01-09-2009

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Budget:

€572,895

Scope

SINAIS aims to motivate sustainable behaviour in individuals and communities, regarding their resource consumption and transportation activities. The project is funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation under the framework of the Carnegie Mellon Portugal Program. This is a 3-year research project led by Lab:USE at the University of Madeira in a consortium that involves Carnegie Mellon University, the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, the Portuguese Catholic University and several companies and government agencies.

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Team

2014

Quintal, F., Pereira, L., Nunes, N., Nisi, V. What-a-Watt : Where does my electricity comes from? International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI '14) [Demo] RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Scott, M., Pereira, L., Oakley, I. Show Me or Tell Me: Designing Avatars for Feedback Interacting with Computers [Impact Factor:1.158] RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Pereira, L., Nunes, N., Bergés, M. SURF and SURF-PI: A File Format and API for Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Public Datasets International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy '14) [short paper] RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Pereira, L., Quintal, F., Gonçalves, R., Nunes, N. SustData: A Public Dataset for ICT4S Electric Energy Research International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S '14) RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Barreto, M., Szóstek, A., Karapanos, E., Nunes, N., Pereira, L., Quintal, F. Understanding families’ motivations for sustainable behaviors Computers in Human Behavior Vol. 40 Pag. 6 - 15 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

2013

Pereira, L. Towards Automating the Performance Evaluation of Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring Systems International Conference on ICT for Sustainability (ICT4S '13), [Doctoral Consortium] RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Pereira, L., Quintal, F., Barreto, M., Nunes, N. Understanding the Limitations of Eco-feedback: a One Year Long-term Study International Conference on Human Factors in Computing & Informatics (SouthCHI '13) [Acceptance Rate: 22%] Vol. 7947 Pag. 237-255 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Quintal, F., Barreto, M., Nunes, N., Nisi, V., Pereira, L. WattsBurning on my mailbox: a tangible art inspired eco-feedback visualization for sharing energy consumption IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '13), [Acceptance Rate: ~25%] RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Quintal, F., Pereira, L., Nunes, N., Nisi, V., Barreto, M. WATTSBurning: design and evaluation of an innovative eco-feedback system IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT '13), [Acceptance Rate: ~25%] Vol. 8117 Pag. 453-470 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Nisi, V., Nunes, N., Quintal, F., Barreto, M. SINAIS from Fanal: design and evaluation of an art-inspired eco-feedback system Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI. [Acceptance Rate: 49%] Pag. 3:1–3:10 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

2012

Pereira, L., Nunes, N. Low cost framework for non-intrusive home energy monitoring and research 1st International Conference on Smart Grids and Green IT Systems (SMARTGREENS '12), [Short Paper, Acceptance Rate: 25%] Vol. 1 Pag. 191-196 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Quintal, F., Pereira, L., Nunes, N. A long-term study of energy eco-feedback using non-intrusive load monitoring International Conference on Persuasive Technology (Persuasive '12), [Poster] Pag. 49 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Gouveia, L., Pereira, L., Scott, M., Oakley, I. Eco-Avatars: Visualizing Disaggregate Home Energy Use ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '12), [Demo] RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Pereira, L., Quintal, F., Nunes, N., Bergés, M. The design of a hardware-software platform for long-term energy eco-feedback research 4th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems (EICS '12) [Acceptance Rate: 22%] Pag. 221–230 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Quintal, F., Nisi, V., Nunes, N., Barreto, M., Pereira, L. HomeTree – An Art Inspired Mobile Eco-feedback Visualization Advances in Computer Entertainment Conference (ACE '12), [Demo] Pag. 545–548 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

2011

Nunes, N., Pereira, L., Quintal, F., Berges, M. Deploying and evaluating the effectiveness of energy eco-feedback through a low-cost NILM solution International Conference on Persuasive Technology (Persuasive '11) RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Barreto, M., Karapanos, E., Nunes, N. Social translucence as a theoretical framework for sustainable HCI Human-Computer Interaction–INTERACT 2011, [Acceptance Rate: 28%] Pag. 195–203 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

2010

Quintal, F., Nunes, N., Ocneanu, A., Berges, M. SINAIS: home consumption package: a low-cost eco-feedback energy-monitoring research platform DIS '10: Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Pag. 419–421 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Nunes, N., Nisi, V., Zimmerman, J. Service Design and Innovation in Public Policy: a case in electric mobility SERVSIG 2010 – AMA Services Research Conference RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

Ferreira, D., Kostakos, V., Rogstadius, J., Venkatanathan, J. Design, Prototyping and Evaluation of Ambient Media: Lessons Learned from the Ambient Notifier MobileHCI - International Workshop on Tool-Support for Mobile and Pervasive Application Development RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

2009

van Leeuwen, J.P., Oakley, I., Nunes, N., Nisi, V., Kostakos, V. Sensory Social Networks to Motivate Sustainable Behaviour Proceedings of the 12th International EuropIA Conference RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

2008

Szostek, A.Matysiak, Karapanos, E., Eggen, B., Holenderski, M. Understanding the Implications of Social Translucence for Systems Supporting Communication at Work CSCW: 2008 ACM CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Pag. 649-658 RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

2007

Campos, P., Sousa, F., Pereira, L., Perestrelo, C., Freitas, D. Cross-Media User Interfaces for Controlling the Enterprise - The EAGLE Integrated System 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems RTF Tagged XML BibTex Google Scholar

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