FP-OmarKhan
From CS294-10 Visualization Fa07
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[edit] Proposal
[edit] Group Members
- Omar Khan
[edit] Description
The governor, and the campus, have made the issue of climate change a top priority, and the Berkeley chancellor has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2014 (see http://sustainability.berkeley.edu/calcap/). This has kicked off a lot of work around campus, and one area in particular is energy efficiency. A number of buildings on campus provide high resolution measurements (i.e. readings on the order of minutes apart) of energy usage (Soda is one such building. See a dashboard at http://www.demandless.org/building/31/report/#report). Right now this data is not being effectively used by any stakeholders: building occupants like staff and students, building managers, administration. Thus, we want to examine the following problem:
how can we create interactive visualizations of high-resolution metering data in campus buildings that: - educate users about their building and its environmental impact, - engage users so they want to make changes, and - empower users so they know how they can modify their behaviors in the building to have a positive environmental impact
Such an interactive visualization gives building users a new perspective on the environment they are situated within.
There has been previous visualization work in this area by groups at Oberlin College and by the Lucid Design Group, groups I am in contact with. Furthermore, there is extensive survey data of building occupants that can be leveraged to address the question above.
The concrete goal is to evaluate previous work, and propose and start to build an interactive visualization tool specifically for Soda Hall, to address the points above.
NOTE: this will be joint work with people at CalCAP, and especially Sam Borgeson, an MS student in the Building Sciences program here at Cal.
[edit] Initial Problem Presentation
- Link to slides here: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~omar/vis/VisualizationProjectProposal.ppt
[edit] Midpoint Design Discussion
- Link to slides here http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~omar/vis/VisualizationProjectMidpoint.ppt
[edit] Final Deliverables
- Link to source code and executable: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~omar/vis/vis_omar_khan_project.zip
- Link to final paper in pdf form: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~omar/vis/report.pdf
- Link to final slides or poster: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~omar/vis/VisualizationProjectPosterSlides.ppt
NOTE: to run the code, you must unzip it and:
1. run the server. it is a python server. go to the server directory, and run "python data_server.py" 2. run the application. First, you must add the application to your Flash allowed list.
if you go to the following link, a flash player will open at the top showing you your flash player's security settings:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html#117502
then click 'Edit locations...' and add the main.swf file from the flex directory. after you do this, you'll be able to load the flash file.
Next, click PLAY, which is a button overlayed on the soda hall image in the top left. Have fun!
