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- Beyond Eco-feedback - Using Art and Emotional Attachment to Express Energy ConsumptionPublication . Nisi, Valentina; Nicoletti, Diego; Nisi, Raffaella; Nunes, Nuno JardimThis paper describes several art based eco-feedback concepts conceived around the potential of emotional attachment between people and the natural environment. Starting from a sensor-infrastructure that looks at how families consume electricity in their homes, we investigate several artistic visualizations of the Madeiran local landscapes exploring the connection between families and elements of the endemic laurel forest. The approach described here leverages digital art as a means to go beyond traditional eco-feedback technology. By coupling people and the forest landscapes we intend to narrow the physical, temporal and psychological gaps between our everyday actions and nature. We explore how people can build a direct emotional connection between their daily energy consumption and the impact on the natural environment (such as climate change and related forest fires, mudslides, desertification and erosion).
- DreamScope Catcher: a Touch Sensitive Interface to Catch DreamsPublication . Dionisio, Mara; Bala, Paulo; Trindade, Rui; Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno JardimDream Scope is the interactive, stand alone, self contained portion of a bigger Art installation named Lucid Peninsula. The goal of the installation is to offer a way for people to experience the future through a physical interactive installation. To achieve this aim we designed and developed the interactive DreamScope device, while the Time’s Up collective designed and built the physical installation. On one side with the DreamViewer binoculars enable participants to see the Lucid Peninsula fictional world and absorb data relating to factors such as air quality, presence of plant and other life forms, etc. On the other side of the installation, the audience will be able to borrow mobile devices (DreamCatchers) and ‘catch’ the dreams of the inhabitants of the peninsula, which are mixed with memories of the world before it was transformed.
- LoRaquatica: Studying Range and Location Estimation using LoRa and IoT in Aquatic SensingPublication . Radeta, Marko; Ribeiro, Miguel; Vasconcelos, Dinarte; Noronha, Hildegardo; Nunes, Nuno JardimWhile ubiquitous computing remains vastly applied in urban environments, their applications in ocean environment remain scarce due to the limitations in range and cost of current radio technology. This hinders environmental telemetry in the oceans and other remote areas. In this study, we explore the usage of IoT and Long Range Radio Communication (LoRa) in ocean environments. We study the maximum distance for LoRa and a potential location estimation based on the same technology using the passive RSSI analysis. Using three coastal based nodes and a node mounted on a sea vessel, we report a maximum range of 83.6km. We also achieve a location error within a radius of 3.4km (4% of maximum distance) in the sea. These results support marine biologist expeditions, allowing them to use low cost, long-lasting and easy to deploy solutions for tracking marine objects and species in open ocean, providing them data in near real-time. We discuss the findings from used models, outlining limitations, and providing a scenario for future ubiquitous IoT applications for tracking sea objects.
- LoRattle - An Exploratory Game with a Purpose Using LoRa and IoTPublication . Radeta, Marko; Ribeiro, Miguel; Vasconcelos, Dinarte; Nunes, Nuno JardimThe Internet of Things (IoT) is opening new possibilities for sensing, monitoring and actuating in urban environments. They sup port a shift to a hybrid network of humans and things collaborating in production, transmission and processing of data through low-cost and low power devices connected via long-range (LoRa) wide area networks (WAN). This paper describes a 2-player duel game based on IoT con trollers and LoRa radio communication protocol. Here we report on the main evaluation dimensions of this new design space for games, namely: (i) game usability (SUS) leading to an above average score; (ii) affective states of the players (SAM) depicting pleasant and engaging gameplay, while players retain control; (iii) radio coverage perception (RCP) show ing that most participants did not change their perception of the radio distance after playing. Finally, we discuss the findings and propose future interactive applications to take advantage of this design space.
- MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL: A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in PortugalPublication . Grilo, Clara; Afonso, Beatriz C.; Afonso, Filipe; Alexandre, Marta; Aliácar, Sara; Almeida, Ana; Alonso, Ivan Prego; Álvares, Francisco; Alves, Paulo; Alves, Paulo Célio; Alves, Pedro; Jones, Kate E.; Laborde, Marina I.; de Oliveira, Luís Lamas; Leitão, Inês; Lemos, Rita; Lima, Cátia; Linck, Paloma; Lopes, Hugo; Lopes, Susana; López‐Baucells, Adrià; Amado, Anabela; Loureiro, Armando; Loureiro, Filipa; Lourenço, Rui; Lourenço, Sofia; Lucas, Paula; Magalhães, Ana; Maldonado, Cristina; Marcolin, Fabio; Marques, Sara; Marques, J. Tiago; Amendoeira, Vitor; Marques, Carina; Marques, Paulo; Marrecas, Pedro Caetano; Martins, Frederico; Martins, Raquel; Mascarenhas, Miguel; Mata, Vanessa A.; Mateus, Ana Rita; Matos, Milene; Medinas, Denis; Amorim, Francisco; Mendes, Tiago; Mendes, Gabriel; Mestre, Frederico; Milhinhas, Catarina; Mira, António; Monarca, Rita I.; Monteiro, Norberto; Monteiro, Barbara; Monterroso, Pedro; Nakamura, Mónia; da Silva Aparício, Guilherme; Negrões, Nuno; Nóbrega, Eva K.; Nóvoa, Miguel; Nunes, Manuel; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Oliveira, Flávio; Oliveira, José Miguel; Palmeirim, Jorge M.; Pargana, João; Paula, Anabela; Araújo, Ricardo; Paupério, Joana; Pedroso, Nuno M.; Pereira, Guilherme; Pereira, Pedro F.; Pereira, José; Pereira, Maria João Ramos; Petrucci‐Fonseca, Francisco; Pimenta, Miguel; Pinto, Sara; Pinto, Nuno; Ascensão, Fernando; Pires, Rosa; Pita, Ricardo; Pontes, Carlos; Quaresma, Marisa; Queirós, João; Queirós, Luís; Rainho, Ana; da Graça Ramalhinho, Maria; Ramalho, Patrícia; Raposeira, Helena; Augusto, Margarida; Rasteiro, Francisco; Rebelo, Hugo; Regala, Frederico Tátá; Reto, Dyana; Ribeiro, Sérgio Bruno; Rio‐Maior, Helena; Rocha, Ricardo; Rocha, Rita Gomes; Rodrigues, Luísa; Román, Jacinto; Bandeira, Victor; Roque, Sara; Rosalino, Luís Miguel; do Rosário, Inês T.; Rossa, Mariana; Russo, Danilo; Sá, Pedro; Sabino‐Marques, Helena; Salgueiro, Vânia; Santos, Helena; Santos, Joana; Barbosa, A. Márcia; Santos, João P. V.; Santos, Nuno; Santos, Sara; Santos, Carlos Pedro; Santos‐Reis, Margarida; Serronha, Ana; Sierra, Pablo; Silva, Bruno; Silva, Carla S. G. M.; Silva, Clara; Barbosa, Soraia; Silva, Diogo; da Silva, Luís P.; Silva, Ricardo; Silva, Carmen; da Silva Júnior, Flavio Manoel Rodrigues; Sousa, Pedro; Sousa‐Guedes, Diana; Spadoni, Giulia; Tapisso, Joaquim T.; Teixeira, Daniela; Barbosa, Sérgio; Teixeira, Sérgio; Teixeira, Nuno; Torres, Rita T.; Travassos, Paulo; Vale‐Gonçalves, Hélia; Cidraes‐Vieira, Nuno; von Merten, Sophie; da Luz Mathias, Maria; Barreiro, Silvia; Barros, Paulo; Barros, Tânia; Barros, Filomena; Basto, Mafalda; Bernardino, Joana; Bicho, Sara; Biedma, Luis Eduardo; Borges, Marta; Braz, Luis; Brito, José Carlos; Brito, Tiago; Cabral, João Alexandre; Calzada, Javier; Camarinha, Cláudia; Carapuço, Mafalda; Cardoso, Paulo; Carmo, Mário; Carrapato, Carlos; da Silva Carrilho, Maílis; Carvalho, Diogo Filipe T. C. S.; Carvalho, Filipe; Carvalho, João; Castro, Diana; Castro, Guilherme; Castro, Joana; Castro, Luis Roma; Catry, Filipe Xavier; Cerveira, Ana M.; Cid, André; Clarke, Rafael; Conde, Conceição; Conde, José; Costa, Jorge; Costa, Mafalda; Costa, Pedro; Costa, Cristina; do Couto, André Pedro; Craveiro, João; Dias, Marta; Dias, Sofia; Duarte, Beatriz; Duro, Virginia; Encarnação, Cláudia; Eufrázio, Sofia; Fael, António; Falé, João Salvador; Faria, Sandra; Fernandes, Carlos; Fernandes, Margarida; da Costa, Gonçalo Ferrão; Ferreira, Clara; Ferreira, Diogo F.; Ferreira, Eduardo; Ferreira, Joaquim Pedro; Ferreira, João; Ferreira, Diana; Fonseca, Carlos; Fontes, Inês; Fragoso, Ricardo; Franco, Claudia; Freitas, Tamira; Gabriel, Sofia I.; Gibb, Rory; Gil, Patricia; Gomes, Carla Patricia Jorge; Horta, Pedro; Gomes, Pedro; Gomes, Verónica; Grilo, Filipa; Guedes, Américo; Guilherme, Filipa; Gutiérrez, Iván; Harper, Henry; Herrera, José M.; Hipólito, Dário; Infante, Samuel; Jesus, JoséMammals are threatened worldwide, with 26% of all species being included in the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associated with habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mam mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion for marine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func tionality and resilience, and therefore information on their distribution is cru cial to delineate and support conservation actions. MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL is a publicly available data set compiling unpublished georeferenced occurrence records of 92 terrestrial, volant, and marine mam mals in mainland Portugal and archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira that includes 105,026 data entries between 1873 and 2021 (72% of the data occur ring in 2000 and 2021). The methods used to collect the data were: live obser vations/captures (43%), sign surveys (35%), camera trapping (16%), bioacoustics surveys (4%) and radiotracking, and inquiries that represent less than 1% of the records. The data set includes 13 types of records: (1) burrows j soil mounds j tunnel, (2) capture, (3) colony, (4) dead animal j hair j skulls j jaws, (5) genetic confirmation, (6) inquiries, (7) observation of live animal (8), observation in shelters, (9) photo trapping j video, (10) predators diet j pellets j pine cones/nuts, (11) scat j track j ditch, (12) telemetry and (13) vocalization j echolocation. The spatial uncertainty of most records ranges between 0 and 100 m (76%). Rodentia (n =31,573) has the highest number of records followed by Chiroptera (n = 18,857), Carnivora (n = 18,594), Lagomorpha (n = 17,496), Cetartiodactyla (n = 11,568) and Eulipotyphla (n = 7008). The data set includes records of species classified by the IUCN as threatened (e.g., Oryctolagus cuniculus [n = 12,159], Monachus monachus [n = 1,512], and Lynx pardinus [n = 197]). We believe that this data set may stimulate the publication of other European countries data sets that would certainly contrib ute to ecology and conservation-related research, and therefore assisting on the development of more accurate and tailored conservation management strategies for each species. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite this data paper when the data are used in publications.
- Object modeling for user-centered development and user interface design: the wisdom approachPublication . Nunes, Nuno Jardim
- SeaMote - Interactive Remotely Operated Apparatus for Aquatic ExpeditionsPublication . Radeta, Marko; Ribeiro, Miguel; Vasconcelos, Dinarte; Lopes, Jorge; Sousa, Michael; Monteiro, João; Nunes, Nuno JardimIoT has been widely adopted by HCI communities and citi zen scientists to sense and control the surrounding environments. While their applications are mostly reported in urban settings, they remain scarce in aquatic settings. Oceans are undergoing an immense increase of human generated pollution ranging from noise to marine litter, where current USV solutions to detect its impact on environment remain at high cost. In our study, we design a first low-cost, long-range, radio controlled USV, based on IoT and LoRa, intended to be used for aquatic expeditions collecting environmental telemetry. We gather temperature, humidity, GPS position, footage and provide a mobile interface for remote control ling the USV. With this pilot study, we provide an initial study of the suitable simplistic GUI for long-range remote sensing in aquatic setting. We discuss the findings and propose future applications and Internet of Water Things as future research direction.
- SINAIS from Fanal: design and evaluation of an art-inspired eco-feedback systemPublication . Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Quintal, Filipe; Barreto, MaryIn this paper we present the challenges exposed during the designing, implementing and assessment of a novel eco feedback system resulting from the intersection of human computer interaction (HCI), and Digital Art. We explore how a digital art mode of inquiry can contribute to expose existing challenges in eco-feedback technology. Our new art inspired eco-feedback visualization, maps electricity consumption to effects on natural elements of the local natural landscape. The feedback was piloted with eight local families for four weeks. Reactions of the users were assessed through interviews and quantitative measures. Our findings showed that users found the mapping of the eco feedback to artistic representations of elements of the natural environment somehow compelling, despite lacking of clear quantitative information. In conclusion, the conducted study provide useful findings and insights into future deployment of eco-feedback using artistic visualizations, information visualization and motivating behavior change.
- Watt-I-See: A Tangible Visualization of EnergyPublication . Quintal, Filipe; Jorge, Clinton; Nisi, Valentina; Nunes, Nuno JardimThis paper describes a tangible visualization that explores the link between the impact of energy feedback on household consumers and the resource demand impact on energy production. Specifically, it positions a novel perspective attempting to move beyond the known limitations of current eco-feedback systems and contributes to enhance our understanding of how consumers comprehend energy production. The work is informed by a comprehensive study of an installation that displays the ratio of current power generation sources and the percentage of grid renewables. The paper provides design insights for creating novel eco-feedback visualizations that leverage the balance between user lifestyles and the desire to influence consumption behaviors and practices. Evaluation results show an increase in energy literacy and awareness as well as identifies high consumer preferences towards simple, representative interfaces and ubiquitous immediate feedback. Our study shows potential in terms of future scenarios for eco-feedback in distributed energy micro-generation and other inevitable disruptive changes for the energy utility.
- Yarn: a product for unraveling storiesPublication . Buenafe, Susan; Guzman, Luis; Kannan, Namrata; Mendoza, Kristine; Nunes, Nuno Jardim; Nisi, Valentina; Campos, Pedro; Gonçalves, Frederica; Campos, Miguel; Freitas, PauloWriting is one of the oldest human activities, dating back as far as 3200 BCE. This paper provides an industrial case study about understanding the creative writing process using interviews and directed storytelling on aspiring and established writers and educators, performed during a one year capstone project, where teams of HCI students pair up with industrial designers and developers in order to solve a real world design problem. After 26 interviews and 55 hours of analysis, four concepts were used as dimensions to analyse creative writing applications: serendipity, haven, evolution and shuffle. Based on these ideas, we developed a series of prototypes by gradually increasing the fidelity of each successive prototype and making changes elicited from user feedback. The culmination of our process is Yarn, a new writing application. Yarn helps writers “unravel their story.” With Yarn, a writer can (i) Play with structure; (ii) Easily move chunks of writing; (ii) Create alternatives of sections, and (iv) Write in a beautiful distraction-free way.