The Energy Tree Game we built with Mengting Sun is being heavily used by educators in the SFU PICS science day-long outreach workshops on energy. These workshops bring in a class of middle-school students for a day of exploring all…
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The annual forum for the environmental think tank, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, took place last week, Wednesday Oct 12, at SFU downtown. This is the yearly event where the “Big Five” research themes present their findings, solutions and…
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…
Playing games is a ludic activity that can teach how our actions impact in the environment. Being aware of our actions and understanding how they impact in the game space is as important as in our everyday life. With the…
Between January and may 2015 Metro Vancouver was immersed in a debate about investments in public transit for the next 30 years. The topic became controversial when Mayor’s Council proposed to increase the sales taxes to fund the project, and…
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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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North House has been awarded a 2010 R&D Award by Architect Magazine. These jury-selected awards are based on criteria of performance, aesthetics, and progressive thinking. The writeup for the award focuses on the Adaptive Living Interface System (though the interactive…
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