Energy babble: Mixing environmentally-oriented internet content to engage community groups

William Gaver; Mike Michael; Tobie Kerridge; Alex Wilkie; Andy Boucher; Liliana Ovalle; Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702546

Energy babble: Mixing environmentally-oriented internet content to engage community groups

William Gaver, Mike Michael, Tobie Kerridge, Alex Wilkie, Andy Boucher, Liliana Ovalle, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Crossings
Place of Publication	New York, NY, United States
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1115-1124
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450331456
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702546
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015 - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2015-April

Conference

Conference	33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/15 → 23/04/15

Keywords

Energy communities
Environmental HCI
Ludic design
Research through design
STS

Research Group keywords

Interaction Research Studio

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Gaver, W., Michael, M., Kerridge, T., Wilkie, A., Boucher, A., Ovalle, L., & Plummer-Fernandez, M. (2015). Energy babble: Mixing environmentally-oriented internet content to engage community groups. In CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings (pp. 1115-1124). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702546

Gaver, William ; Michael, Mike ; Kerridge, Tobie et al. / Energy babble : Mixing environmentally-oriented internet content to engage community groups. CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. New York, NY, United States : ACM, 2015. pp. 1115-1124 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Gaver, W, Michael, M, Kerridge, T, Wilkie, A, Boucher, A , Ovalle, L & Plummer-Fernandez, M 2015, Energy babble: Mixing environmentally-oriented internet content to engage community groups. in CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, vol. 2015-April, ACM, New York, NY, United States, pp. 1115-1124, 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 18/04/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702546

Energy babble: Mixing environmentally-oriented internet content to engage community groups. / Gaver, William; Michael, Mike; Kerridge, Tobie et al.
CHI 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Crossings. New York, NY, United States: ACM, 2015. p. 1115-1124 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2015-April).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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