A5030577733- Green IT and Sustainability
- Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Recycling and Waste Management Techniques
- Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
- Smart Grid Energy Management
- Information Systems Theories and Implementation
- Personal Information Management and User Behavior
- Network Traffic and Congestion Control
- Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Open Source Software Innovations
- Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
- Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Caching and Content Delivery
- Water resources management and optimization
- Advanced Control Systems Optimization
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
Technische Universität Berlin
2023-2024
Institute of Environmental Engineering
2023
University of Lisbon
2013-2023
ETH Zurich
2003-2020
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2015-2016
Centre for Sustainable Energy
2016
Center of Technology and Engineering for Nuclear Projects
2014
Instituto Superior Técnico
2014
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
2014
University of Coimbra
2013
Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demands a shift by industry, governments, society, and individuals to reach adequate levels of awareness actions address sustainability challenges. Software systems will play an important role in moving towards these targets. Sustainability skills are necessary support development software provide sustainable IT-supported services for citizens. While there is growing number academic bodies including education engineering computer science...
Research shows that the global society as organized today, with our current technological and economic system, is impossible to sustain. We are living in an era which human activities highly industrialized countries responsible for overshooting several planetary boundaries, poorer communities contributing least problems but being impacted most. At same time, technical gains fail provide at large equal opportunities improved quality of life. This article describes approaches taken computing...
ABSTRACT Visions of Pervasive Computing and ambient intelligence involve integrating tiny microelectronic processors sensors into everyday objects in order to make them "smart." Smart things can explore their environment, communicate with other smart things, interact humans, therefore helping users cope tasks new, intuitive ways. Although many concepts have already been tested out as prototypes field trials, the repercussions such extensive integration computer technology our lives are...
Summary The direct energy demand of Internet data flows can be assessed using a variety methodological approaches (top‐down, bottom‐up, or hybrid/model based) and different definitions system boundaries. Because this diversity, results reported in the literature differ by up to two orders magnitude are difficult compare. We present first assessment that uses pure bottom‐up approach boundary includes only transmission equipment. is based on case study 40 megabit per second videoconferencing...
Abstract Many land-based ecosystems are dependent on groundwater and could be threatened by human abstraction. One key challenge for the description of associated impacts is initial localisation groundwater-dependent (GDEs). This usually requires a mixture extensive site-specific data collection use geospatial datasets remote sensing techniques. To date, no study has succeeded in identifying different types GDEs parallel worldwide. The main objective this work to perform global screening...
Abstract Purpose Chocolate is a widely consumed product and consumers are increasingly interested in its sustainability. However, the lack of scientific studies covering social dimension hinders holistic assessment A life cycle (S-LCA) was conducted cooperation with Colombian chocolate manufacturer following Guidelines for S-LCA Products Organizations 2020. This study represents first application sector both cocoa cultivation manufacturing. Methods The aimed to identify main hotspots within...
Consumer behavior can significantly influence the environmental impact of products. Takeaway food and beverage packaging be assumed to an example this effect, as consumers directly affect its disposal or, in case reusable packaging, reuse rate. While possible impacts takeaway are comprehensively discussed available Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) studies, consumer is not extensively considered. Thus, a literature review was used analyze existing LCAs regarding three aspects: (i) extent which...
Abstract Purpose Lithium is critical to the clean energy transition, specifically for lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles and grid-level storage. Chile a major source of lithium hydroxide carbonate from brine. The main production facilities are Salar de Atacama (SdA), hyper-arid region home indigenous communities. A social life cycle assessment (S-LCA) was conducted better understand potential impacts mining on these communities, particularly relation water consumption as this concern...
Sustainability requires ongoing reform of resource production and consumption to reduce environmental harms. The main way that Information Communication Technology (ICT) can address these impacts is through digital optimization. Spreng found optimization an industrial process either increases energy use or accelerates consumption. It was assumed reducing progresses sustainability, whilst accelerating meet market demand consumerist generally detrimental sustainability. In this paper, we argue...
As part of global climate action, digital technologies are seen as a key enabler energy efficiency savings. A popular application domain for this work is smart homes. There risk, however, that these gains result in rebound effects , which reduce or even overcompensate the Rebound well-established economics, but it less clear whether they also inform research other disciplines. In paper, we ask: to what extent have and their underlying mechanisms been considered computing, HCI home research?...
Abstract Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are driving transformative changes many areas, with significant environmental implications. Yet, assessments for specific applications scarce. This study presents an in‐depth life cycle assessment of “Foodforecast,” a machine learning (ML) cloud service designed to reduce food waste bakeries by optimizing sales forecasting. It covers four impact categories: global warming, abiotic resource depletion, cumulative energy demand, and...
A good instrument for understanding the possible blessings and perils of new technology in general ubiquitous computing particular is development analysis scenarios future. This paper presents some consequences implied by several such that have been developed interdisciplinary research project "living a smart environment implications ". To show how manifold far-reaching might be, emphasizes two particularly relevant implications. First, it discusses deep economic paradigm shifts could arise...
The world faces escalating crises: record-breaking temperatures, widespread fires, severe flooding, increased oceanic microplastics, and unequal resource distribution. Academia introduces courses around sustainability to meet the new demand, but software engineering education lags behind. While systems contribute environmental issues through high energy consumption, they also hold potential for solutions, such as more efficient equitable management. Yet, remains a low priority many...