TY - GEN
T1 - Energy babble
T2 - 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
AU - Gaver, William
AU - Michael, Mike
AU - Kerridge, Tobie
AU - Wilkie, Alex
AU - Boucher, Andy
AU - Ovalle, Liliana
AU - Plummer-Fernandez, Matthew
PY - 2015/4/18
Y1 - 2015/4/18
N2 - The Energy Babble is a kind of automated talk-radio that is obsessed with energy and the environment. We developed it with, and deployed it to, a number of existing 'energy communities' in the UK. The system gathers content from a variety of online sources, including Twitter™ feeds from the communities, from governmental departments, and from the National Grid, and chats about it continually using a number of synthesised voices interspersed with a variety of jingles and sound effects. Designed to playfully reflect and comment on the existing state of discourse and reports of practice in the UK, the Babble can be considered both as a product and as a research tool, in which role it worked to highlight issues, understandings, practices and difficulties in the communities with whom we worked.
AB - The Energy Babble is a kind of automated talk-radio that is obsessed with energy and the environment. We developed it with, and deployed it to, a number of existing 'energy communities' in the UK. The system gathers content from a variety of online sources, including Twitter™ feeds from the communities, from governmental departments, and from the National Grid, and chats about it continually using a number of synthesised voices interspersed with a variety of jingles and sound effects. Designed to playfully reflect and comment on the existing state of discourse and reports of practice in the UK, the Babble can be considered both as a product and as a research tool, in which role it worked to highlight issues, understandings, practices and difficulties in the communities with whom we worked.
KW - Energy communities
KW - Environmental HCI
KW - Ludic design
KW - Research through design
KW - STS
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84951067787&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2702123.2702546
DO - 10.1145/2702123.2702546
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84951067787
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1115
EP - 1124
BT - CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - ACM
CY - New York, NY, United States
Y2 - 18 April 2015 through 23 April 2015
ER -