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
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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
2015
Conference Publication
More than just food: field visits to an emergency relief centre
Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen and Mallett, Miranda (2015). More than just food: field visits to an emergency relief centre. OzChi'15: Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838787
2015
Conference Publication
Prototyping the self-authored video interview: Challenges and opportunities
Snow, Stephen, Rittenbruch, Markus and Brereton, Margot (2015). Prototyping the self-authored video interview: Challenges and opportunities. 15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015, Bamberg, Germany, 14 - 18 September 2015. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22668-2_13
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
2014
Journal Article
Investigation into the effect of infrastructure on fly-in fly-out mining workers
Perring, Adam, Pham, Kieu, Snow, Steve and Buys, Laurie (2014). Investigation into the effect of infrastructure on fly-in fly-out mining workers. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 22 (6), 323-327. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12117
2014
Conference Publication
Privacy in the new era of visible and sharable energy-use information
Snow, Stephen, Radke, Kenneth, Vyas, Dhaval and Brereton, Margot (2014). Privacy in the new era of visible and sharable energy-use information. 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2 - 5, December, 2014. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2686612.2686664
2013
Conference Publication
Curiosity to cupboard: self reported disengagement with energy use feedback over time
Snow, Stephen, Buys, Laurie, Roe, Paul and Brereton, Margot (2013). Curiosity to cupboard: self reported disengagement with energy use feedback over time. 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (ozCHI'19), Adelaide, SA, Australia, 25-29 November 2013. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2541016.2541025
2013
Conference Publication
Towards engaged consumption: new sources of inspiration for eco-feedback design
Snow, Stephen and Brereton, Margot (2013). Towards engaged consumption: new sources of inspiration for eco-feedback design. 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 September 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_8
2012
Journal Article
Transportation behaviours of older adults: an investigation into car dependency in urban Australia
Buys, Laurie, Snow, Stephen, van Megen, Kimberley and Miller, Evonne (2012). Transportation behaviours of older adults: an investigation into car dependency in urban Australia. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 31 (3), 181-186. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2011.00567.x
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Stephen Snow is:
- Available for supervision
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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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