The ECOS green buildings project: data dramatization, visualization and manipulation

  • Authors:
  • Deb Polson;Cassandra Selin

  • Affiliations:
  • Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ICT-GLOW'12 Proceedings of the Second international conference on ICT as Key Technology against Global Warming
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Buildings are key mediators between human activity and the environment around them, but details of energy usage and activity in buildings is often poorly communicated and understood. ECOS is an Eco-Visualization project that aims to contextualize the energy generation and consumption of a green building in a variety of different climates. The ECOS project is being developed for a large public interactive space installed in the new Science and Engineering Centre of the Queensland University of Technology that is dedicated to delivering interactive science education content to the public. This paper focuses on how design can develop ICT solutions from large data sets to create meaningful engagement with environmental data.