UbiGreen

The UbiGreen project aims to encourage environmental stewardship by combining low-cost sensors, inference, and user feedback to track resource usage and "reward" green behaviors. We are carrying out this work in the context of transportation, energy, and water usage.

UbiGreen Transportation Display

Our first UbiGreen project, the Transportation Display, uses activity inference to display transportation activity information on the background of an individual's mobile phone. The UbiGreen Transportation Display gives people an ambient awareness of their weekly transportation usage and how much CO2 they have saved for the week. The Transportation Display makes people more aware of their transportation patterns and gives them positive feedback when these patterns have less impact on the environment (e.g., walking, biking, or taking public transit). UbiGreen can help people make personal changes that can improve our global environment.

UbiGreen Transportation Display 2.0 YouTube Video

Collaborators

Publications

GroupEnergyTable: An Interactive Tabletop for Energy Conservation Katherine Everitt, Peter F. Oven, Shwetak N. Patel and James A. Landay IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2012. Article (PDF)

The Design of Eco-Feedback Technology Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater and James A. Landay Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2010. Full Paper (PDF)     Best Paper Winner

HydroSense: Infrastructure-Mediated Single-Point Sensing of Whole-Home Water Activity Jon E. Froehlich, Eric Larson, Tim Campbell, Conor Haggerty, James Fogarty and Shwetak N. Patel International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)     Best Paper Nominee

UbiGreen: Investigating a Mobile Tool for Tracking and Supporting Green Transportation Habits Jon E. Froehlich, Tawanna Dillahunt, Predrag Klasnja, Jennifer Mankoff, Sunny Consolvo, Beverly Harrison and James A. Landay Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. Full Paper (PDF)

The Mobile Sensing Platform: An Embedded System for Capturing and Recognizing Human Activities Tanzeem Choudhury, Gaetano Borriello, Sunny Consolvo, Dirk Haehnel, Beverly Harrison, Bruce Hemingway, Jeffrey Hightower, Predrag Klasnja, Karl Koscher, Anthony LaMarca, James A. Landay and Jonathan Lester IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2008. Article (PDF)

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