A Collaborative Mobile Cultural Mapping Workshop & Exhibition at ISEA 2015 (by Luciano Frizzera) The workshop started with the participants introducing themselves and briefly talked about their own research interests. Next, Dr. Martha Ladly took over to give a quick…
SFU PhD candidate and HCSSL researcher Stephen Makonin, with SFU professors Fred Popowich and Lyn Bartram, has released an open dataset of residential energy use for general research. The AMPds (Almanac of Minutely Power Dataset) contains one years worth…
Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability, edited by Rebecca Henn and Andrew Hoffman, has just been released by MIT Press, 2013. It features a chapter by K. Velikov, L. Bartram and others on “Empowering the Inhabitant: Communication Technologies, Responsive…
West House, the SFUsustainable laneway home, opened to much public and media interest March 8 in Vancouver. It showcases leading-edge small footprint residential design, energy efficient, integrated systems and interactive technologies that encourage a sustainable lifestyle. Chief among these…
A recent press release in the Vancouver Observer announced the development of the Net Zero Canadian Research and Development Centre, that “will demonstrate Canada’s capabilities in green building technologies, and serve as a one-stop location for Canadian technology companies in…
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One of our primary industry partners, Embedded Automation, has released a video demonstrating their new products for smart grid integration. Connecting the Digital Home to the Smart Grid presents their mStation and mBee products, which use ZigBee networking technology to…
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Smallworks, our partner on West House, has posted a time-lapse construction video of the building being re-constructed at the long term site, complete with seasonal Vancouver skies overhead! Check it out.
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Photo Credit: Keith Henderson Photography West House is a made-in-Vancouver demonstration of a sustainable laneway home. It showcases leading-edge small footprint residential design, energy efficient, integrated systems and interactive technologies that encourage a sustainable lifestyle. Come visit us at the…
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Welcome to the newly formed Human-Centered Systems for Sustainable Living research group at Simon Fraser University‘s School of Interactive Arts & Technology. About Reducing our ecological footprint requires not only new energy technologies but also new and more efficient energy…
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