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Thursday, 12 May 2011 |
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Project Director
Rose Luckin
Researchers
LKL
Brock Craft
University of Birmingham
Russell Beale
Ben Cowen
Jonathan Melhuish
Swansea University
Matt Jones
Yukang Guo
University of Central Lancashire
Janet C Read
Daniel Fitton
Lorna McKnight
Northumbria University
Linda Little
Nicola Gardiner
Project Details
2010-2013
Funder: EPSRC
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The project has been developed for the UK Transforming Energy Demand through Digital Innovation Scheme (TEDDI) and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). It is the first energy efficiency scheme to engage directly with teenagers, who will be involved as ëco-investigators' of the project and will be encouraged to report their findings using online communities and social networking with cutting-edge, mobile phone and wireless sensor technologies.
Through a story-gathering web-portal teenagers from across the UK will have the opportunity to share their experiences and tell stories about their energy usage, combining images and video in a bid to uncover the most efficient ways to reduce waste. Teenagers will then be given the opportunity to design mobile communications products to monitor, and potentially change, their energy habits. As the project evolves, some teenagers will also get the chance to attend a summer workshop, working alongside experts and academics in gathering and interpreting data with an aim to report back to their friends and families, on ways to be more energy efficient.
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