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Hi Heather
While not an evaluation per se, you may find the attached paper from
Creativity and Cognition '07 conference of interest in thinking about
an evaluation framework, especially their discussion of eco-
visualization/eco-feedback and its effects on sustainable behavior as
it related to their '7000 oaks and counting' exhibit.
Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy
consumption
by Tiffany Grace Holmes
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Can creative visualizations of real time energy consumption patterns
trigger more ecologically responsible behavior? Media art that
displays the real time usage of key resources such as electricity
offers new strategies to conserve energy in the home and workplace.
This paper details the development of a public art project created for
the National Center for Supercomputing Applications that measures
electricity usage in real time for the purpose of education and
curtailment of power usage. A version of this piece will be on view in
the exhibition, Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary, a
component of the 2007 Creativity and Cognition conference.
Here's the citation at http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/CC2007/and email me
off-line if you have trouble accessing a PDF of article
Best,
Marti
On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:25 AM, Heather Harkins wrote:
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> I am interested in evaluations of programs or exhibits which deal
> with "estimating your carbon footprint."
>
> Our own exhibit on this topic is a screen-based activity that has
> visitors input data about their lifestyle (i.e., # of cars, diet,
> home heating and cooling practices) and then tells them their carbon
> footprint. We are looking to evaluate this exhibit, and since it
> is a popular activity that has been around for a few years (in
> exhibits and otherwise), I am hoping to utilize and build from what
> has already been done.
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> Thanks for any and all ideas,
> Heather
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