Dr Stephen Snow
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Architecture, Design and Planning
Researcher biography
I am a Research Fellow who works between the Centre for Energy Data Innovation (ITEE) and the School of Architecture at UQ. I am passionate about design that builds better relationships between people, the buildings they inhabit and the energy they consume. My work seeks to understand the role of data visualisations in building energy literacy and balancing energy efficiency and adequate ventilation/indoor air quality (IAQ). I lead the Study Fresh program at UQ which has engaged over 550 students across 15 schools in hands-on workshops towards building IAQ monitors and learning how to identify poor IAQ in classrooms and take actions to improve it. I hold grants related to improving users' experience in electricity retailer switching and have run a two-year study examining longitudinal engagement with energy use feedback. My research involves mixed methods including ethnography, co-design, speculative design, in-situ monitoring and data analysis to inform the design of visualisations to improve energy literacy and assist users in navigating the complexities of the Australian energy market. I have applied these methods to case studies in the UK and Australia and completed over 200 audits as a building sustainability assessor under the Australian Government's Green Loans scheme (2009-2012).
Publications
Book Chapters
McLaughlin, Bradley, Snow, Stephen and Chapman, Adriane (2021). Codesign to improve IAQ awareness in classrooms. Intelligent environmental data monitoring for pollution management. (pp. 241-267) edited by Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Naba Kumar Mondal, Jan Platos, Va´clav Sna´sˇel and Pavel Kr€omer. London, United Kingdom: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/b978-0-12-819671-7.00011-7
Snow, Stephen, University of Queensland, Maguire, Joseph, Evans, Chris, Vasilchenko, Anna, Dix, Alan and Wilde, Adriana (2019). Towards a taxonomy of video for HCI education. Trends and good practices in research and teaching. A Spanish-English collaboration. (pp. 31-46) edited by Eloy López-Meneses, Esteban Vázquez Cano , Manuel León Urrutia and Nicholas Fair. Barcelona, Spain: Editorial Octaedro. doi: 10.36006/16184-02
Journal Articles
Snow, Stephen, Fielke, Simon, Fleming, Aysha, Jakku, Emma, Malakar, Yuwan, Turner, Charles, Hunter, Tammy, Tijs, Sigrid and Bonnett, Graham (2024). Climate services for agriculture: Steering towards inclusive innovation in Australian climate services design and delivery. Agricultural Systems, 217 103938, 103938. doi: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.103938
Malakar, Yuwan, Fleming, Aysha, Fielke, Simon, Snow, Stephen and Jakku, Emma (2024). Comparing established practice for short-term forecasts and emerging use of climate projections to identify opportunities for climate services in Australian agriculture. Climate Services, 33 100442, 100442. doi: 10.1016/j.cliser.2023.100442
Snow, Stephen, Fleming, Aysha, Fielke, Simon, Malakar, Yuwan, Jakku, Emma, Tozer, Carly and Bonnett, Graham D (2023). “A little bit obsessed with the weather”: Leveraging Australian farmers’ online weather practices to inform the design of climate services. NJAS: Impact in Agricultural and Life Sciences, 96 (1) ARTN 2296652. doi: 10.1080/27685241.2023.2296652
Snow, Stephen, Matthews, Sarah, Chen, Yueer, Yang, Sicheng and Bayley, Mark (2023). Designing serious games to engage children with energy saving in the home: potential learning outcomes and design considerations. Journal of Computers in Education. doi: 10.1007/s40692-023-00302-x
Nowak, Agnieszka Magdalena, Snow, Stephen, Horrocks, Neil and Glencross, Mashhuda (2022). Micro-climatic variations and their impact on domestic energy consumption - systematic literature review. Energy and Buildings, 277 112476, 112476. doi: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2022.112476
Snow, Stephen, Danam, Royce, Leardini, Paola, Glencross, Mashhuda, Beeson, Brett, Ottenhaus, Lisa-Mareike and Boden, Marie (2022). Human factors affecting ventilation in Australian classrooms during the COVID-19 pandemic: Toward insourcing occupants' proficiency in ventilation management. Frontiers in Computer Science, 4 888688. doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.888688
Snow, Stephen, Chadwick, Kevin, Horrocks, Neil, Chapman, Archie and Glencross, Mashhuda (2022). Do solar households want demand response and shared electricity data? Exploring motivation, ability and opportunity in Australia. Energy Research and Social Science, 87 102480, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102480
Snow, Stephen, Clerc, Carolina and Horrocks, Neil (2021). Energy audits and eco-feedback: exploring the barriers and facilitators of agricultural energy efficiency improvements on Australian farms. Energy Research and Social Science, 80 102225, 102225. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102225
Matthews, Ben, Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Schlosser, Paul, Salisbury, Isaac and Matthews, Sarah (2021). How to do things with notes: the embodied socio-material performativity of sticky notes. Design Studies, 76 101035, 101035. doi: 10.1016/j.destud.2021.101035
Englberger, Stefan, Chapman, Archie C., Tushar, Wayes, Almomani, Tariq, Snow, Stephen, Witzmann, Rolf, Jossen, Andreas and Hesse, Holger (2021). Evaluating the interdependency between peer-to-peer networks and energy storages: a techno-economic proof for prosumers. Advances in Applied Energy, 3 100059, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.adapen.2021.100059
Snow, Stephen, Bean, Richard, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Drivers behind residential electricity demand fluctuations due to COVID-19 restrictions. Energies, 13 (21) 5738, 1-20. doi: 10.3390/en13215738
Snow, Stephen, Happa, Jassim, Horrocks, Neil and Glencross, Mashhuda (2020). Using design thinking to understand cyber attack surfaces of future smart grids. Frontiers in Energy Research, 8 591999. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2020.591999
Bean, Richard, Snow, Stephen, Glencross, Mashhuda, Viller, Stephen and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Keeping the power on to home medical devices. PloS One, 15 (7) e0235068, e0235068. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235068
Snow, Stephen, Wilde, Adriana, Denny, Paul and schraefel, m. c. (2019). A discursive question: supporting student-authored multiple choice questions through peer-learning software in non-STEMM disciplines. British Journal of Educational Technology, 50 (4), 1815-1830. doi: 10.1111/bjet.12686
Snow, Stephen, Boyson, Amy S., Paas, Karlien H. W., Gough, Hannah, King, Marco-Felipe, Barlow, Janet, Noakes, Catherine J. and Schraefel, M. C. (2019). Exploring the physiological, neurophysiological and cognitive performance effects of elevated carbon dioxide concentrations indoors. Building and Environment, 156, 243-252. doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2019.04.010
Auffenberg, Frederik, Snow, Stephen, Stein, Sebastian and Rogers, Alex (2018). A comfort-based approach to smart heating and air conditioning. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 9 (3) 28, 1-20. doi: 10.1145/3057730
Snow, Stephen, Vyas, Dhaval and Brereton, Margot (2017). Sharing, saving, and living well on less: supporting social connectedness to mitigate financial hardship. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 33 (5), 345-356. doi: 10.1080/10447318.2016.1243846
Snow, Stephen, Vyas, Dhaval and Brereton, Margot (2015). When an eco-feedback system joins the family. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19 (5-6), 929-940. doi: 10.1007/s00779-015-0839-y
McKenzie, Sally M., McMahon, Bronte, Verlaat, Ivy, Snow, Stephen and Buys, Laurie (2015). Collecting in an urban context: relationships between collections and space in the home. Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, 4 (1), 15-27. doi: 10.1386/ajpc.4.1.15_1
Perring, Adam, Pham, Kieu, Snow, Steve and Buys, Laurie (2014). Investigation into the effect of infrastructure on fly-in fly-out mining workers. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 22 (6), 323-327. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12117
Buys, Laurie, Snow, Stephen, van Megen, Kimberley and Miller, Evonne (2012). Transportation behaviours of older adults: an investigation into car dependency in urban Australia. Australasian Journal on Ageing, 31 (3), 181-186. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2011.00567.x
Conference Papers
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2023). Participatory design tools: leveraging materiality and familiarity to adapt unconventional materials into design tools. 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition, C&C '23, Online, 19 - 21 June 2023. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3591196.3593339
Balson, Alexander, Bean, Richard, Chapman, Archie C., Snow, Stephen, Viller, Stephen, Horrocks, Neil and Glencross, Mashhuda (2022). On-demand batteries as a peer-to-peer service. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) Conference, Brisbane QLD Australia, 5-8 December 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISGTASIA49270.2021.9715657
Snow, Stephen, Weigel, Jason, Balson, Alex, Viller, Stephen and Glencross, Mashhuda (2022). User-centred design of a grid health virtual reality tabletop for energy networks. IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies - Asia (ISGT Asia) Conference, Brisbane QLD Australia, 5-8 December 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ISGTASIA49270.2021.9715616
Khan, Awais Hameed, Ejaz, Neelam, Matthews, Sarah, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2021). Speculative design for education: using participatory methods to map design challenges and opportunities in Pakistan. Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Virtual, 28 June - 2 July 2021. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3461778.3462117
Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2021). Neighbourhood Wattch: Using Speculative Design to Explore Values Around Curtailment and Consent in Household Energy Interactions. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 8-13 May 2021. New York, NY United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3411764.3445095
Snow, Stephen, Guinea, Toby, Balson, Alexander, Khan, Awais Hameed, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Rent-a-Watt: Rethinking energy use feedback. OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sydney, NSW Australia, 2-4 December 2020. Washington, DC United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3441000.3441059
Bayley, Mark, Snow, Stephen, Weigel, Jason and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Serious Game Design to Promote Energy Literacy among Younger Children. OzCHI '20: 32nd Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Sydney, NSW Australia, 2-4 December 2020. Washington, DC United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3441000.3441047
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Heiner, Scott, Hardgrove, Robert, Matthews, Sarah and Matthews, Ben (2020). The politics of materiality: exploring participatory design methods, tools and practices. DRS2020, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 11 - 14 August, 2020. London, United Kingdom: Design Research Society. doi: 10.21606/drs.2020.246
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen and Matthews, Ben (2020). Tracing design: practitioner accounts of design value, documentation and practices. 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6-10 July 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357236.3395537
Khan, Awais Hameed, Snow, Stephen, Heiner, Scott and Matthews, Ben (2020). Disconnecting: towards a semiotic framework for personal data trails. 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 6-10 July 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3357236.3395580
Snow, Stephen, Khan, Awais Hameed, Viller, Stephen, Matthews, Ben, Heiner, Scott, Pierce, James, Luger, Ewa, Gomer, Richard and Filipczuk, Dorota (2020). Speculative designs for emergent personal data trails: signs, signals and signifiers. 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, United States, 25-30 April 2020. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3334480.3375173
Snow, Stephen, Filipczuk, Dorota, Viller, Stephen and Gomer, Richard (2020). Design jam as a pedagogy: teaching design thinking to computer science students at scale. OZCHI’19, Fremantle, WA, Australia, 2-5 December 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3369457.3369468
Snow, Stephen, Viller, Stephen, Glencross, Mashhuda and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Where are they now?: Revisiting energy use feedback a decade after deployment. OZCHI’19, Fremantle, WA, Australia, 2-5 December 2019. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3369457.3369501
Doherty, Skye, Snow, Stephen, Jennings, Kathleen, Rose, Ben, Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim: a tangible energy story. 13th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2020, Bournemouth, United Kingdom, 3-6 November 2020. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62516-0_24
Filipczuk, Dorota, Mason, Charles and Snow, Stephen (2019). Using a game to explore notions of responsibility for cyber security in organisations. 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 4-9 May 2019. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3290607.3312846
Snow, Stephen, Oakley, Michael and schraefel, m.c. (2019). Performance by design: supporting decisions around indoor air quality in offices. Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19), San Diego, CA, United States, 23-28 June 2019. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/3322276.3322372
Vasilchenko, Anna, Wilde, Adriana, Snow, Stephen, Balaam, Madeline and Devlin, Marie (2018). Video coursework: Opportunity and challenge for HCI education. 14th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2018, Grosseto, Italy, 29 May - 1 June 2018. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3206505.3206596
Visuri, Aku, Asare, Kennedy Opoku, Kuosmanen, Elina, Nishiyama, Yuuki, Ferreira, Denzil, Sarsenbayeva, Zhanna, Goncalves, Jorge, Van Berkel, Niels, Wadley, Greg, Kostakos, Vassilis, Clinch, Sarah, Matthews, Oludamilare, Harper, Simon, Jenkins, Amy, Snow, Stephen and Schraefel, M. C. (2018). Ubiquitous mobile sensing: Behaviour, mood, and environment. UbiComp '18, Singapore, 8 - 12 October, 2018. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. doi: 10.1145/3267305.3274142
Snow, Stephen, Auffenberg, Frederik and Schraefel, M. C. (2017). Log it while it's hot: designing human interaction with smart thermostats for shared work environments. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017), Denver, CO, United States, 6-11 May 2017. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). doi: 10.1145/3025453.3025578
Snow, Stephen, Vyas, Dhaval, Lyle, Peter, Mallett, Miranda and Brereton, Margot (2016). Building connections: Technology design for living on a low income. 14th Participatory Design Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 15 - 19 August 2016. New York, NY United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2948076.2948091
Snow, Stephen, Soska, Anna, Chatterjee, Shre Kumar and Schraefel, M. C. (2016). Keep calm and carry on: Exploring the social determinants of indoor environment quality. CHI EA '16 , San Jose, CA, United States, 7 - 12 May, 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2851581.2892490
Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen, Roe, Paul and Brereton, Margot (2016). Social organization of household finance: understanding artful financial systems in the home. 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2016, San Francisco, CA, United States, 27 February - 2 March 2016. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2818048.2819937
Biswas, Dwaipayan, Bono, Valentina, Scott-South, Michael, Chatterjee, Shre, Soska, Anna, Snow, Steve, Noakes, Catherine, Barlow, Janet F., Maharatna, Koushik and Schraefel, M. C. (2016). Analysing wireless EEG based functional connectivity measures with respect to change in environmental factors. 3rd IEEE EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2016), Las Vegas, NV, United States, 24-27 February 2016. New York, NY, United States: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/BHI.2016.7455969
Snow, Stephen, Auffenberg, Frederik and Schraefel, M. C. (2016). Crowd-sourcing thermal (dis)comfort. 30th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, HCI 2016, Poole, United Kingdom, 11-15 July 2016 . London, United Kingdom: BCS Learning and Development. doi: 10.14236/ewic/hci2016.88
Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen and Mallett, Miranda (2015). More than just food: field visits to an emergency relief centre. OzChi'15: Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: ACM Press. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838787
Vyas, Dhaval, Snow, Stephen, Brereton, Margot, Dulleck, Uwe and Boyen, Xavier (2015). Being thrifty on a $100K wage: Austerity in family finances. 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 14-18, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2685553.2698998
Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Fixing the alignment: an exploration of budgeting practices in the home. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015. Seoul, South Korea: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732808
Snow, Stephen, Rittenbruch, Markus and Brereton, Margot (2015). Prototyping the self-authored video interview: Challenges and opportunities. 15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015, Bamberg, Germany, 14 - 18 September 2015. Berlin, Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22668-2_13
Capel, Tara, Schnittert, Johanna Frederike, Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Exploring motivations of young adults to participate in physical activities. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, Korea, 18 -23 April, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732800
Snow, Stephen (2015). Commentary. CHI '15: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul Republic of Korea , April, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732513
Snow, Stephen and Vyas, Dhaval (2015). Fostering collaboration in the management of family finances. 27th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2015, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838746
Snow, Stephen, McMahon, Bronte, McKenzie, Sally, Radke, Kenneth, Verlaat, Ivy and Buys, Laurie (2015). Designing for collections: Building histories, sharing the spectacle. OzCHI '15, Parkville, VIC, Australia, 7 - 10 December, 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838798
Redhead, Fiona, Snow, Steve, Vyas, Dhaval, Bawden, Owen, Russell, Ray, Perez, Tristan and Brereton, Margot (2015). Bringing the farmer perspective to agricultural robots. 33rd Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2015, Seoul, South Korea, 18-23 April 2015. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2702613.2732894
Snow, Stephen, Radke, Kenneth, Vyas, Dhaval and Brereton, Margot (2014). Privacy in the new era of visible and sharable energy-use information. 26th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, OzCHI 2014, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2 - 5, December, 2014. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2686612.2686664
Snow, Stephen and Brereton, Margot (2013). Towards engaged consumption: new sources of inspiration for eco-feedback design. 14th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 2-6 September 2013. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-40498-6_8
Snow, Stephen, Buys, Laurie, Roe, Paul and Brereton, Margot (2013). Curiosity to cupboard: self reported disengagement with energy use feedback over time. 25th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (ozCHI'19), Adelaide, SA, Australia, 25-29 November 2013. New York, NY, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2541016.2541025
Research Report
Snow, Stephen , Balson, Alexander , Chamberlin, Andrew , Clerc, Carolina and Chapman, Archie (2022). Charting farmers’ experience of tariff switching: prepared in collaboration with Queensland Farmers Federation for Energy Consumers Australia. Brisbane, Australia: The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/138e511
Creative Work
Doherty, Skye , Rose, Ben , Jennings, Kathleen, Snow, Stephen , Matthews, Ben and Viller, Stephen (2020). Vim. Brisbane, Australia: University of Queensland.
Data Collection
Bean, Richard, Snow, Stephen, Glencross, Mashhuda, Viller, Stephen and Horrocks, Neil (2020). Keeping the power on to home medical devices. The University of Queensland. (Dataset) doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.802