PEIR Featured in UCLA Today
The Personal Environmental Impact Report, PEIR, was recently featured in UCLA Today, UCLA’s faculty and staff newspaper:
UCLA’s Deborah Estrin has put herself on the line for her work, comparing her carbon output to that of her friends and then showing the results, flattering or unflattering, on Facebook.
For Estrin, a computer science professor and director of UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, it’s not about socializing. It’s beta testing for CENS’ newest invention — the personal environmental impact report.
By downloading software onto a GPS cell phone, users can get daily reports on how much smog they produced while driving, how much pollution they inhaled while walking and even how many fast-food joints tempted them along the path of their commute or jog. An interactive Web site traces lines across a map showing details such as where a user drove, how long the trip took and whether the driver passed through any particularly polluted areas.
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