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This paper describes the design and implementation of a mobile app, Smiling Earth, to support citizens to contribute to climate change by being aware of their carbon footprint and making changes in their daily energy consumption and transportation. One of the main aims of this work is to explore the ways in which ICT could help raise awareness and educate citizens about their actions and their consequences on the environment. The Smiling Earth app is designed to visualise data about citizens’ activities and to motivate citizens to change their behavior to reduce their CO2 emissions by adopting a healthier lifestyle. The app takes a broader perspective of CO2 emissions, bringing together the transport and energy sectors. The design process and a preliminary evaluation of Smiling Earth is presented in the paper. This work has been conducted as a part of the EU H2020 DESENT project.
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This work has been funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the European Union’s H2020 research and innovation programme, under the grant agreement No. 857160. Smiling Earth was implemented and evaluated by 2 MSc, Celine Minh and Ragnhild Larsen, and a summer student at NTNU. The authors would like to thank NTE and the participants of the workshops for their valuable contributions.
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Petersen, S.A., Petersen, I., Ahcin, P. (2020). Smiling Earth - Raising Citizens’ Awareness on Environmental Sustainability. In: Themistocleous, M., Papadaki, M. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 381. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44322-1_4
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