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Graphic Designer | UI/UX Designer
EcoTune
Listen to your carbon footprint
About the project
This project is aimed to resolve people’s emotional disconnect towards the concept of climate crisis. Based on the impact of music on emotions, and how it can be used to tackle climate crisis, a mobile application was ideated and designed to help people track and calculate their carbon footprint. The user’s monthly carbon footprint is generated as a 30 second musical compositions using data sonification technology.
Specific instruments are assigned to each four metrics of the contributors of carbon footprint, ie., Household energy consumption, Transportation, Food consumption and Shopping/Activities. The settings of the instruments can be adjusted. The frequency of instrument track tempo increases as the user’s carbon footprint increases in value, thus making the music more disturbing to hear as the carbon footprint increases. This produces a sense of urgency and danger within the user, thus attempting to create emotional awareness about climate crisis and their contribution to it. The app also offers the user ways in which they can reduce or offset their carbon emission and also to track their progress in it.
Features of EcoTune
Feature 1: Basic Carbon Data Input
Baseline questionnaire where the user inputs data regarding their household energy consumption, travel, diet and shopping/activities.
Feature 2: Auto tracking of carbon footprint
Access to google map to track location in order to retrieve data regarding travel mode and distance.
Access to transaction history of bank apps/payment apps, supermarket customer apps (Kaufland, Rewe, Lidl etc) to retrieve shopping bills that contain item/service purchased and amount spent which can determine if the item/service bought are sustainable choices.
Feature 3: Notification Panel Access for Input
Option to input daily food consumption from notification panel to improve easy access and to remind the user every day while also improving the accuracy of carbon footprint calculation.
Feature 4: Home screen
The carbon footprint music (EcoTune) of the previous month is generated on the first day of the coming month. Until then, the EcoTune of the month before that is displayed on the home screen. The user can play the 28-31 seconds track to be able to hear the level of impact of their carbon footprint.
Based on the results, the user can choose to reduce the impact. The app provides different ways in which the user can reduce/offset their carbon footprint.
Feature 5: Carbon Offset Actions and Habits
Carbon Footprint Reduction/ Offset Action and Habits: User can track the progress of their impact reduction and even form habits out of certain tasks that the user finds doable or beneficial or simply finds interest in doing.
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