Overview
Background
I am an Adjunct Research Fellow who works between the UQ School of EECS and CSIRO. I am passionate about design and technology that makes a positive impact to sustainability, and building better relationships between people, their personal data and the energy they consume. My work seeks to understand the role of data visualisations in building energy literacy and balancing energy efficiency and adequate ventilation/indoor air quality (IAQ). I lead the Study Fresh program at UQ which has engaged over 650 students across 20 schools in hands-on workshops towards building IAQ monitors and learning how to identify and remedy poor IAQ in classrooms. I hold grants related to improving farmers' experience in electricity retailer switching, regional energy resilience and have run a two-year study examining longitudinal engagement with energy use feedback. My research involves mixed methods including ethnography, co-design, speculative design, in-situ monitoring and data analysis to inform the design of visualisations to improve energy literacy. I have applied these methods to case studies in the UK and Australia and completed over 200 audits as a building sustainability assessor under the Australian Government’s Green Loans scheme (2009-2012).
Availability
- Dr Stephen Snow is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Queensland University of Technology
Research impacts
Research featured in Future Learning Magazine, Farm Weekly, Wired Magazine, on ABC Radio, in Newscorp papers, and in multiple school's social media (e.g. a, b, c -p.8).
Panelist on Digital Worlds and Disruptive Technologies UK/UQ event
Two-part report commissioned and prepared for the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
h-Index of 13- over 45 peer reviewed journal and conference articles published in Q1, Q2, CORE A* and CORE A venues- Google Scholar.
Works
Search Professor Stephen Snow’s works on UQ eSpace
2021
Journal Article
Energy audits and eco-feedback: exploring the barriers and facilitators of agricultural energy efficiency improvements on Australian farms
Snow, Stephen, Clerc, Carolina and Horrocks, Neil (2021). Energy audits and eco-feedback: exploring the barriers and facilitators of agricultural energy efficiency improvements on Australian farms. Energy Research and Social Science, 80 102225, 102225. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102225
2021
Journal Article
How to do things with notes: the embodied socio-material performativity of sticky notes
Matthews, Ben, Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Schlosser, Paul, Salisbury, Isaac and Matthews, Sarah (2021). How to do things with notes: the embodied socio-material performativity of sticky notes. Design Studies, 76 101035, 101035. doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2021.101035
2021
Journal Article
Evaluating the interdependency between peer-to-peer networks and energy storages: a techno-economic proof for prosumers
Englberger, Stefan, Chapman, Archie C., Tushar, Wayes, Almomani, Tariq, Snow, Stephen, Witzmann, Rolf, Jossen, Andreas and Hesse, Holger (2021). Evaluating the interdependency between peer-to-peer networks and energy storages: a techno-economic proof for prosumers. Advances in Applied Energy, 3 100059, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.adapen.2021.100059
2021
Conference Publication
Speculative design for education: using participatory methods to map design challenges and opportunities in Pakistan
Khan, Awais Hameed, Ejaz, Neelam, Matthews, Sarah, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2021). Speculative design for education: using participatory methods to map design challenges and opportunities in Pakistan. Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Virtual, 28 June - 2 July 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3461778.3462117
2021
Conference Publication
Neighbourhood Wattch: Using Speculative Design to Explore Values Around Curtailment and Consent in Household Energy Interactions
Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2021). Neighbourhood Wattch: Using Speculative Design to Explore Values Around Curtailment and Consent in Household Energy Interactions. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 8-13 May 2021. New York, NY United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445095
2021
Book Chapter
Codesign to improve IAQ awareness in classrooms
McLaughlin, Bradley, Snow, Stephen and Chapman, Adriane (2021). Codesign to improve IAQ awareness in classrooms. Intelligent environmental data monitoring for pollution management. (pp. 241-267) edited by Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Naba Kumar Mondal, Jan Platos, Va´clav Sna´sˇel and Pavel Kr€omer. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-819671-7.00011-7
2020
Conference Publication
Serious Game Design to Promote Energy Literacy among Younger Children
Bayley, Mark, Snow, Stephen, Weigel, Jason and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Serious Game Design to Promote Energy Literacy among Younger Children. OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sydney, NSW Australia, 2-4 December 2020. Washington, DC United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3441000.3441047
2020
Conference Publication
Rent-a-Watt: Rethinking energy use feedback
Snow, Stephen, Guinea, Toby, Balson, Alexander, Khan, Awais Hameed, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Rent-a-Watt: Rethinking energy use feedback. OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sydney, NSW Australia, 2-4 December 2020. Washington, DC United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3441000.3441059
2020
Journal Article
Drivers behind residential electricity demand fluctuations due to COVID-19 restrictions
Snow, Stephen, Bean, Richard, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Drivers behind residential electricity demand fluctuations due to COVID-19 restrictions. Energies, 13 (21) 5738, 1-20. doi: 10.3390/en13215738
2020
Journal Article
Using design thinking to understand cyber attack surfaces of future smart grids
Snow, Stephen, Happa, Jassim, Horrocks, Neil and Glencross, Mashhuda (2020). Using design thinking to understand cyber attack surfaces of future smart grids. Frontiers in Energy Research, 8 591999. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2020.591999
2020
Conference Publication
The politics of materiality: exploring participatory design methods, tools and practices
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Heiner, Scott, Hardgrove, Robert, Matthews, Sarah and Matthews, Ben (2020). The politics of materiality: exploring participatory design methods, tools and practices. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11 - 14 August, 2020. London, United Kingdom: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.246
2020
Journal Article
Keeping the power on to home medical devices
Bean, Richard, Snow, Stephen, Glencross, Mashhuda, Viller, Stephen and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Keeping the power on to home medical devices. PloS One, 15 (7) e0235068, e0235068. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235068
2020
Conference Publication
Disconnecting: towards a semiotic framework for personal data trails
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Heiner, Scott and Matthews, Ben (2020). Disconnecting: towards a semiotic framework for personal data trails. 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6-10 July 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357236.3395580
2020
Conference Publication
Tracing design: practitioner accounts of design value, documentation and practices
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2020). Tracing design: practitioner accounts of design value, documentation and practices. 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6-10 July 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357236.3395537
2020
Other Outputs
Vim
Doherty, Skye , Rose, Ben , Jennings, Kathleen, Snow, Stephen , Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
2020
Conference Publication
Speculative designs for emergent personal data trails: signs, signals and signifiers
Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Viller, Stephen, Matthews, Ben, Heiner, Scott, Pierce, James, Luger, Ewa, Gomer, Richard and Filipczuk, Dorota (2020). Speculative designs for emergent personal data trails: signs, signals and signifiers. 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, United States, 25-30 April 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3334480.3375173
2020
Conference Publication
Design jam as a pedagogy: teaching design thinking to computer science students at scale
Snow, Stephen, Filipczuk, Dorota, Viller, Stephen and Gomer, Richard (2020). Design jam as a pedagogy: teaching design thinking to computer science students at scale. OZCHI’19, Fremantle, WA, Australia, 2-5 December 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3369457.3369468
2020
Conference Publication
Vim: a tangible energy story
Doherty, Skye, Snow, Stephen, Jennings, Kathleen, Rose, Ben, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim: a tangible energy story. 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2020, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 3-6 November 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_24
2020
Other Outputs
Keeping the power on to home medical devices
Bean, Richard, Snow, Stephen, Glencross, Mashhuda, Viller, Stephen and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Keeping the power on to home medical devices. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.802
2020
Conference Publication
Where are they now?: Revisiting energy use feedback a decade after deployment
Snow, Stephen, Viller, Stephen, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Where are they now?: Revisiting energy use feedback a decade after deployment. OZCHI’19, Fremantle, WA, Australia, 2-5 December 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3369457.3369501
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2022
Doctor Philosophy
Material Forms of Participation: Exploring the Value of Design by Making Design Methods Accessible to Non-designers
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Ben Matthews
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