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
2019
Book Chapter
Towards a taxonomy of video for HCI education
Snow, Stephen, University of Queensland, Maguire, Joseph, Evans, Chris, Vasilchenko, Anna, Dix, Alan and Wilde, Adriana (2019). Towards a taxonomy of video for HCI education. Trends and good practices in research and teaching. A Spanish-English collaboration. (pp. 31-46) edited by Eloy López-Meneses, Esteban Vázquez Cano , Manuel León Urrutia and Nicholas Fair. Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Octaedro. doi: 10.36006/16184-02
2018
Journal Article
A comfort-based approach to smart heating and air conditioning
Auffenberg, Frederik, Snow, Stephen, Stein, Sebastian and Rogers, Alex (2018). A comfort-based approach to smart heating and air conditioning. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 9 (3) 28, 1-20. doi: 10.1145/3057730
2018
Conference Publication
Ubiquitous mobile sensing: Behaviour, mood, and environment
Visuri, Aku, Asare, Kennedy Opoku, Kuosmanen, Elina, Nishiyama, Yuuki, Ferreira, Denzil, Sarsenbayeva, Zhanna, Goncalves, Jorge, Van Berkel, Niels, Wadley, Greg, Kostakos, Vassilis, Clinch, Sarah, Matthews, Oludamilare, Harper, Simon, Jenkins, Amy, Snow, Stephen and Schraefel, M. C. (2018). Ubiquitous mobile sensing: Behaviour, mood, and environment. UbiComp '18, Singapore, 8 - 12 October, 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi: 10.1145/3267305.3274142
2018
Conference Publication
Video coursework: Opportunity and challenge for HCI education
Vasilchenko, Anna, Wilde, Adriana, Snow, Stephen, Balaam, Madeline and Devlin, Marie (2018). Video coursework: Opportunity and challenge for HCI education. 14th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2018, Grosseto, Italy, 29 May - 1 June 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3206505.3206596
2017
Journal Article
Sharing, saving, and living well on less: supporting social connectedness to mitigate financial hardship
Snow, Stephen, Vyas, Dhaval and Brereton, Margot (2017). Sharing, saving, and living well on less: supporting social connectedness to mitigate financial hardship. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 33 (5), 345-356. doi: 10.1080/10447318.2016.1243846
2017
Conference Publication
Log it while it's hot: designing human interaction with smart thermostats for shared work environments
Snow, Stephen, Auffenberg, Frederik and Schraefel, M. C. (2017). Log it while it's hot: designing human interaction with smart thermostats for shared work environments. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, CO, United States, 6-11 May 2017. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025578
2016
Conference Publication
Building connections: Technology design for living on a low income
Snow, Stephen, Vyas, Dhaval, Lyle, Peter, Mallett, Miranda and Brereton, Margot (2016). Building connections: Technology design for living on a low income. 14th Participatory Design Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 15 - 19 August 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2948076.2948091
2016
Conference Publication
Social organization of household finance: understanding artful financial systems in the home
Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen, Roe, Paul and Brereton, Margot (2016). Social organization of household finance: understanding artful financial systems in the home. 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016, San Francisco, CA, United States, 27 February - 2 March 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2818048.2819937
2016
Conference Publication
Crowd-sourcing thermal (dis)comfort
Snow, Stephen, Auffenberg, Frederik and Schraefel, M. C. (2016). Crowd-sourcing thermal (dis)comfort. 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, HCI 2016, Poole, United Kingdom, 11-15 July 2016 . London, United Kingdom: BCS Learning and Development. doi: 10.14236/ewic/hci2016.88
2016
Conference Publication
Analysing wireless EEG based functional connectivity measures with respect to change in environmental factors
Biswas, Dwaipayan, Bono, Valentina, Scott-South, Michael, Chatterjee, Shre, Soska, Anna, Snow, Steve, Noakes, Catherine, Barlow, Janet F., Maharatna, Koushik and Schraefel, M. C. (2016). Analysing wireless EEG based functional connectivity measures with respect to change in environmental factors. 3rd IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2016), Las Vegas, NV, United States, 24-27 February 2016. New York, NY, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/BHI.2016.7455969
2016
Conference Publication
Keep calm and carry on: Exploring the social determinants of indoor environment quality
Snow, Stephen, Soska, Anna, Chatterjee, Shre Kumar and Schraefel, M. C. (2016). Keep calm and carry on: Exploring the social determinants of indoor environment quality. CHI EA '16 , San Jose, CA, United States, 7 - 12 May, 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2851581.2892490
2015
Journal Article
When an eco-feedback system joins the family
Snow, Stephen, Vyas, Dhaval and Brereton, Margot (2015). When an eco-feedback system joins the family. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19 (5-6), 929-940. doi: 10.1007/s00779-015-0839-y
2015
Journal Article
Collecting in an urban context: relationships between collections and space in the home
McKenzie, Sally M., McMahon, Bronte, Verlaat, Ivy, Snow, Stephen and Buys, Laurie (2015). Collecting in an urban context: relationships between collections and space in the home. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 4 (1), 15-27. doi: 10.1386/ajpc.4.1.15_1
2015
Conference Publication
Designing for collections: Building histories, sharing the spectacle
Snow, Stephen, McMahon, Bronte, McKenzie, Sally, Radke, Kenneth, Verlaat, Ivy and Buys, Laurie (2015). Designing for collections: Building histories, sharing the spectacle. OzCHI '15, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7 - 10 December, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838798
2015
Conference Publication
Commentary
Snow, Stephen (2015). Commentary. CHI '15: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul Republic of Korea , April, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732513
2015
Conference Publication
Bringing the farmer perspective to agricultural robots
Redhead, Fiona, Snow, Steve, Vyas, Dhaval, Bawden, Owen, Russell, Ray, Perez, Tristan and Brereton, Margot (2015). Bringing the farmer perspective to agricultural robots. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732894
2015
Conference Publication
Fixing the alignment: an exploration of budgeting practices in the home
Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Fixing the alignment: an exploration of budgeting practices in the home. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015. Seoul, South Korea: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732808
2015
Conference Publication
Exploring motivations of young adults to participate in physical activities
Capel, Tara, Schnittert, Johanna Frederike, Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Exploring motivations of young adults to participate in physical activities. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, 18 -23 April, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732800
2015
Conference Publication
Fostering collaboration in the management of family finances
Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Fostering collaboration in the management of family finances. 27th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2015, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838746
2015
Conference Publication
Being thrifty on a $100K wage: Austerity in family finances
Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen, Brereton, Margot, Dulleck, Uwe and Boyen, Xavier (2015). Being thrifty on a $100K wage: Austerity in family finances. 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-18, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2685553.2698998
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Stephen Snow is:
- Available for supervision
Before you email them, read our advice on how to contact a supervisor.
Supervision history
Completed supervision
-
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
Media
Enquiries
For media enquiries about Dr Stephen Snow's areas of expertise, story ideas and help finding experts, contact our Media team: