Egon Batistič’s master thesis 'Analysis of a Mobile Application for a Promotion of Ecological Driving through the Driver`s Self-surveillance,' mentored by Dan Podjed (in cooperation with Prof. Nataša Novak Tušar, National Institute of Chemistry and University of Nova Gorica), discusses different driving surveillance systems that help the driver behave more eco-friendly; that is under somebody’s top-down surveillance, mutual surveillance, and self-surveillance. Driving surveillance and giving out driving information can result in a more efficient driving style, which leads to a less negative impact on the environment. The purpose of the thesis is to carry out the analysis of self-surveillance. In order to observe its actual behaviour, an analysis was conducted by using the Eco Drive mobile application on ten drivers. The selection of the application was based on the accessibility level and simplicity of use. The results describing the application’s influence on average fuel consumption are included as well. A comparison has been made for their presentation and the differences are clearly evident. What is more, questionnaires and interviews were conducted in order to include drivers’ personal experience based on the use of the application. The analysis has shown that the application had a positive influence on the driving style, since fuel consumption was reduced by nine per cent on average. Consequently, if the application was more widely used, fuel consumption would decrease significantly and the drivers’ impact on the environment would be lower. The drivers mainly expressed positive opinions about the application, although they also had some safety concerns regarding the use of the application while driving. A few weak points of the application, such as 'software bugs,' were brought up as well. The results of the analysis are of great importance to CVS Mobile, which is developing the eco-driving mobile application. The company will take into account the gained information, observations, and praises when it proceeds with developing a highly suitable and user-friendly application.
D.10 Educational activities
COBISS.SI-ID: 3948539Design of the smartphone application ‘1, 2, 3' was based on comparative ethnographic studies in different cities: following a three-month study of movement and sustainable mobility in Ljubljana, a three-month study in Belgrade, and a two-month study in Budapest, research concluded in Newcastle and Durham, UK. The purpose of the app is to promote a healthy lifestyle and help reduce the environmental impact of traffic. The application ‘1, 2, 3', which became available in 2017 to Android-based smartphone users, shows the user how much he or she had walked, cycled, driven a car, or used public transportation in the previous week, month, or year. The application identifies personal achievements solely on the basis of the data it gets from phone sensors, which means that the user does not need a sports bracelet, a smartwatch, or any other device for measuring distance and duration – only a phone. The application encourages movement and sustainable forms of mobility with different individual and group actions. Individuals can win personal achievement badges, whereas group campaigns have all users in the city work towards a collective reward. Group campaigns are particularly important because they promote cooperation, solidarity, and the understanding that progress involves more than just one person. Researchers will initially present the application in Ljubljana, and later adapt it to other cities, which will enable citizens to compare and compete with each other in sustainable mobility.
F.09 Development of a new technological process or technology
COBISS.SI-ID: 40396589Dan Podjed, ‘DriveGreen’ project’s Principal Investigator, is the initiator and main organiser of the international symposium ‘Why the World Needs Anthropologists', which is dedicated to the promotion of applied anthropology and interdisciplinary collaborations of anthropologists in different contexts (event website: www.applied-anthropology.com). The symposium provided the main platform for presenting the ‘DriveGreen' project results; from 2015 to 2017 the event focused on environmentalism, humanisation of Technologies and energy efficiency. In 2015, Ljubljana hosted the third symposium, entitled ‘Burning Issues of Our Hot Planet’, which was attended by more than 450 people; keynote speakers were Lučka Kajfež Bogataj (University of Ljubljana), Genevieve Bell (Intel), Thomas Hylland Eriksen (University of Oslo), and Joana Breidenbach (Betterplace.org). In 2016, Estonian Tartu hosted the fourth symposium 'Why the World Needs Anthropologists' with a thematic title 'Humanise IT!'. More than 350 participants from 20 countries attended the main part of the event and five workshops – one of the workshops, entitled ‘Start Your Own Interdisciplinary Project’ was organised by Dan Podjed. The purpose of the symposium was to ensure cooperation between IT engineers and anthropologists, and to present new possibilities for developing people-friendly IT solutions. Keynote speakers at the event in Tartu were Sten Tamkivi, the founder of Teleport and a former CEO of Skype, Melissa Cefkin, an anthropologist at Nissan, dedicated to the development of autonomous vehicles, Daniel Miller, a professor at University College London (UCL) and an expert in digital media, and Dimitris Dalakoglou, professor of social anthropology at VU University Amsterdam. All four speakers attended the panel discussion, which was moderated by Dan Podjed. A similar format was used for organising the 2017 event in Durham, UK. The four plenary speakers presenting at Durham University were Benj Sykes, UK Country Manager of DONG, Tanja Winther, Associate Professor at Centre for Development and the Environment (University of Oslo), Sophie Bouly de Lesdain, Expert Researcher at Electricité de France, and Veronica Strang, Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Study (Durham University).
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 39594029How do people drive on roads and behave in traffic? How can we change driving habits and encourage more environmentally responsible modes of transportation? These are the two main questions to which the recently published book, edited by Dan Podjed and Simona Bezjak, tries to answer. It tackles the problems of driving, traffic, transportation, and mobility fully, rather than from a single perspective, which has tended to be the norm so far. The authors describe how we can weave together qualitative and quantitative approaches, how useful interviews are for understanding driving comfort, the power ethnography has to help us understand the lifestyle of drivers, which technological tools and approaches are the most useful for analyzing styles of driving, how to explore vehicles and traffic by analyzing language, how traffic might improve or worsen our way of life from a psychological point of view, and how we can encourage environmentally friendly behavior and practices on both the road and in life in general.
C.02 Editorial board of a national monograph
COBISS.SI-ID: 291263488The ‘Telematics Conference SEEurope’ is organized annually, every autumn, and has been the main event in the field of telematics for commercial vehicle fleet management in Southeast Europe since 2011 (event webpage: www.telematics-conference.com). The host country changes from one year to the next, rotating between 15 countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. Belgrade hosted the conference in 2011, Ljubljana in 2012, Zagreb in 2013, Bucharest in 2014, Sofia in 2015, Budapest in 2016; Bratislava in 2017; in 2018, the conference will be held in Warsaw. In 2015 the organising team introduced a new event, the 'Telematics Conference Middle East & Africa,' which is held annually in Dubai, UAE. Both events are focused on regional and global trends in fleet management, logistics and transport, and bring together the key stakeholders, experts and R&D companies in the field. The ‘DriveGreen’ project team members Alenka Bezjak Mlakar and Dan Podjed have been the initiators and main organisers of the ‘Telematics Conference SEEurope’ and ‘Telematics Conference Middle East & Africa’ since their inception. Both events have been very important for the dissemination of the project results, since they enabled the team members to establish and maintain relationships with the main international manufacturers of telematics solutions and present them the project outputs.
F.18 Transfer of new know-how to direct users (seminars, fora, conferences)
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