COMPUTING RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK [June 24 - July 1, 2011]
BinCam - Waste logging for Behavioral Change
BinCam is a two-part personal informatics system designed to increase individuals's awareness of their food waste and recycling behaviour. It uses a standard kitchen bin augmented with a mobile phone to automatically capture and log an individual's waste management activity. Photos are tagged using Amazon Mechanical Turk and uploaded to the BinCam application on Facebook, which encourages playful engagement and reflection upon a user's personal bin data. People can review and share communications about the bin-related behaviour of themselves and others.
BinCam is a collaborative research project between the Digital Interaction group in Culture Lab at Newcastle University, LiSC at the University of Lincoln and the University of Duisburg Essen.
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Institution(s) (that have supported the research):
Newcastle University, University of Lincoln, Universitat Duisburg-Essen
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