Ane Irizar-Arrieta news

MORElab members are awarded by Atlas-Elsevier for their research

Aiming at promoting the social impact of science, the recognised publishing house Elsevier grants monthly the Atlas Awards, a distinction that highlights academic works with high social impact among all the articles of the more than 2,500 magazines of the publishing house. These awards are selected by a prestigious advisory committee, which includes members of Berkeley (Centre for Effective Global Action), United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and United Nations University among others. In February 2020, the article entitled "User perspectives in the design of interactive everyday objects for sustainable behaviour", whose authors are Ane Irizar-Arrieta, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Aiur Retegi, Pablo Garaizar and Diego López de Ipiña, researchers and teachers at the University of Deusto, has been selected with this distinction within the category of Sustainable Development Objective 12, evidencing the scientific excellence of the team and its line of research in the social and economic field.

In the mentioned article, persuasive technologies are analysed and explored as mediators to improve energy efficiency and pro-environmental attitudes of workers in tertiary buildings (it refers to buildings in the service or administrative sector). As a starting point, the paper describes a one-year study among subjects in which participants interact with a smart coffee machine under three different experimental conditions. With the results of this study, a new theory is generated to guide the design and development of people-centred interactive systems to improve sustainable behaviours. This new theory is applied in the conceptualisation and implementation of a new physical interactive device, incorporating specific ideas and solutions from different and complementary perspectives.

DEUSTO organises the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019)

DEUSTEK organized the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019)

From 22 From 22 to 25 October the University of Deusto held the 9th International Conference on the Internet of Things (IoT 2019). This Conference, which builds on the success of its predecessors since 2008, is the premier forum to share, discuss and witness cutting edge research in all areas of development for the Internet of Things.

The Conference included original, high impact research papers which have been reviewed and selected based on technical novelty, the integrity of the analysis and social-environmental impacts and practical relevance, on topics related to the development and adoption of the Internet of Things. Moreover the program included three keynote speakers: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, one of the most influential people in IoT, who talked about "The Illusion of the Smart House", Andy Stanford-Clark, chief technology officer of IBM in the United Kingdom and Ireland, on "Innovation starts at home." and Benoît Piranda, from the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté University, Institut FEMTO-ST, CNRS ( France).

MORElab members Diego Casado-Mansilla and Oihane Gómez-Carmona presented their work at the conference. Diego presented the paper entitled User Involvement Matters: The Side-Effects of Automated Smart Objects in Pro-environmental Behaviour authored by himself, Pablo Garainzar and Diego López-de-Ipiña.

Oihane presented the work "Simplicity is Best: Addressing the Computational Cost of Machine Learning Classifiers in Constrained Edge Devices" authored by herself, Diego Casado-Mansilla, Javier García-Zubia and Diego López-de-Ipiña. Moreover, this paper was awarded an honourable mention.

MORElab participated in Zientzia azoka and Ecodesign panel

During the month of May 2019, MORElab members of GreenSoul H2020 project participated in two relevant outreach events in Bilbao. On the one side, we showcased in "Zientzia azoka" some of the interactive gadgets we have created to promote energy awareness at workplace. For this purpose, we brought conversational agents and we discussed with visitors the impact that these smart objects as assistive technology.

On the other side, we were invited to give a talk in a panel related to circular economy and eco-design in the context of Forotech (Univ. of Deusto). In this talk, we explained the ideation, design and development of the Interactive Coaster, an smart object devised to increase motivation of employees to engage with energy consumption at workplace.

ESTIA met MORElab in DeustoTech premises

On 27th of February 2019, three members of ESTIA Institute of Technology came to DeustoTech to meet Societal Challenges and Energy & Environment members who are working in H2020 GreenSoul and Retos I+D+ì SentientThings projects. The contact was made because of the shared research interest on sustainability, HCI and persuasive technology.

The meeting was fruitful and we expect future collaborations between ESTIA and DeustoTech in the future.

Ane Irizar Arrieta participated in the "3rd International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies"

Ane Irizar Arrieta participated in the “3rd International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies" (Splitech'18) held in Split (Croatia) from June 25th to 29th, 2018.

She presented the paper "Accounting for User Diversity in the Design for Sustainable Behaviour in Smart Offices " authored by herself, Diego Casado-Mansilla and Aiur Retegi.

Assistance and participation in the IoT Week & Global IoT Summit 2018

From the 4th to the 8th of June Bilbao had the pleasure of being the host for the 2018 edition fo the IoT Week & Global IoT Summit. This congress gathers together the community of stakeholders engaged in developing new Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and presents cutting-edge scientific articles on IoT innovations and latest research results.

Three researchers of the group attended this event: Diego López-de-Ipiña, Diego Casado-Mansilla and Oihane Gómez-Carmona. Moreover, Diego Casado-Mansilla participated on the main track of the conference and presented the work “Design-insights for devising persuasive IoT devices for sustainability in the workplace” authored by himself, Ane Irizar-Arrieta, Pablo Garaizar and Diego López-de-Ipiña.

€5 Million Fund for Big Data startups and SMEs – European Data Incubator is open for applications

European Data Incubator (EDI) is a Big Data incubator offering a dedicated acceleration programme and €5M funding for EU based startups and teams.

EDI is looking for Big Data innovators and entrepreneurs from all over Europe to solve real industry challenges provided by various EU corporates and data providers across a wide range of sectors (from Smart Cities, Energy & Environment, to Internet & Media, Industry 4.0 and Retail sectors), or to develop independent data solutions utilizing the available datasets.

EDI’s offer is a great opportunity for entrepreneurs. Selected startups will have access to a free Cloud environment for scalable data processing, data from major European organisations, free business services to boost their growth, a network of data specialists, and up to €100,000 equity free funding.

The EDI incubation process consists of 3 incubation phases: EXPLORE → EXPERIMENT → EVOLVE, where continuous technical, business and funding support is provided to the startups qualifying for the different phases.

Funded by Horizon 2020, EDI is coordinated at European level by the MORElab team at the University of DEUSTO, Spain, and it includes 4 additional core partners (ZABALA Innovation Consulting, F6S Network Ltd, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica and Etventure Startup Hub), as well as 15 data providers (Agencia Efe, Elektro Ljubljana, Emasesa, Energa, Migros, Sonae, Jot Internet Media, RACC, TU-Berlin, Ubimet, Via Verde, Virtual Power Solutions, VRT, Volkswagen Navarra, YKT) offering datasets and defining the business challenges.

Applications are open on F6S until 27 June noon CEST: www.f6s.com/edincubator/apply

More information on www.edincubator.eu

The 7th meeting of H2020 GreenSoul project in Bilbao

Last 15th and 16th of January the University of Deusto held the 7th plenary meeting of the H2020 GreenSoul project. The meeting was conceived to anchor the final pilot plan from a research perspective. Thus, we decided to create a randomized block design within each pilot where different blocks (sub-set of employees) will be subjected to different experimental treatment related to GreenSoul-ed Things, persuasion principles and automation through the DSS.

The meeting was a success and all the partners agreed on the new pilot plan. The next challenge for the project will be to put in practice the research plan and to have the best of the results expected from the project. The next plenary meeting will be in Seville where we will evaluate the current status of the deployment to be carried out.

Ane Irizar arrieta assisted to the 31st EnviroInfo International conference on environmental informatics

Ane Irizar participated in the “31st EnviroInfo International conference on Environmental Informatics” held in Luxembourg from September 13^th – 15^th.

She presented in the PhD Workshop the research that she is developing in her PhD: “The User Centered Design and User Experience as a key features to improve energy efficiency in future Smart Cities”.

The paper presented by Ane Irizar-Arrieta was selected for the Best Early Career Research Award.

Ane Irizar-Arrieta participated in the 11th International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction (IHCI 2017), part of the 11th Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS 2017) held in Lisbon (Portugal) from 20th to 23th of July.

IHCI 2017 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within Interface Culture and Design with a particular emphasis on the affective aspects of design, development and implementation of interfaces and the generational implications for design of human and technology interaction.

She presented an article entitled “Coping with user diversity: UX informs the design of a digital interface that encourages sustainable behaviour” authored by herself and Diego Casado-Mansilla. The paper was selected for the Best Early Career Research Award.

DeustoTech organises the 5th Plenary Meeting for the GreenSoul Project

MORElab members together with DeustoTech-ENERGY colleagues organised the GreenSoul’s 5th Plenary Meeting in DEUSTO premises in Bilbao from 20th to 21st of June 2017. The meeting meeting's main objective was to boost the pilot planning for the 6 pilot buildings that the project have (Seville, Weiz, Pilea, Sussex, Cambridge and Bilbao). Furthermore, the technical attendants agreed in a common picture of the GS's architectures and the first prototypes of GreenSoul-ed Things from CERTH and DEUSTO were presented. The GreenSoul-ed devices complement existing electrical appliances in order to monitor their energy consumption and assist their user’s in better usage – better behaviour from an energy consumption standpoint. Among others, MORElab’s smart power strip, the interactive coaster and the smart dimmer were presented.

Several pending issues were addressed regarding the the integration of the sensors, smart analysers and GreenSoul-ed things into the LinkSmart middleware. DEUSTO and WSC presented the work done to start the installation of the WSC's Smart metering system (UMD). Further discussion on the dissemination of the project and the baseline creation for the different buildings were topics also tackled in the meeting. The roadmap for the November review in Brussels was established.