The May issue of Computer (vol. 44, no. 5), the flagship publication of IEEE, featured a paper summarising the BeAware project: Eco-Feedback on the Go: Motivating Energy Awareness. Authors include Eve Hoggan and Giulio Jacucci from the department.

Abstract: The EnergyLife mobile interface incorporates lessons from environmental psychology and feedback intervention to relay information from appliance sensors, offering a gaming environment that rewards users for decreased electricity consumption.

More information:

• Full paper: http://users.tkk.fi/~giulio/eco-feedback.pdf, http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2011.125
• Citation: Anna Spagnolli, Nicola Corradi, Luciano Gamberini, Eve Hoggan, Giulio Jacucci, Cecilia Katzeff, Loove Broms, Li Jönsson, "Eco-Feedback on the Go: Motivating Energy Awareness," Computer, vol. 44, no. 5, pp. 38-45, Mar. 2011, doi:10.1109/MC.2011.125
• BeAware project: energyawareness.eu