[bioundgrd] Fwd: Join the Carbon Footprinting App Pilot (MIT DUSP-based research project)

[Janice Chang]

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From: Johnna Cressica Brazier <cressica at mit.edu<mailto:cressica at mit.edu>>
Subject: Join the Carbon Footprinting App Pilot (MIT DUSP-based research project)

Could you help us share this invitation with your departments? We would like to remind all MIT affiliates that they can still join the smartphone app pilot this week.

Thank you very much,

Cressica Brazier
PhD student, MIT DUSP


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Dear students, staff, faculty, and friends of MIT,

You can still download the Mobile Carbon Footprinting app and join the pilot program this week.
In addition to learning about your daily carbon footprint, you will be able to see how it compares with your classmates and colleagues at MIT and Harvard.

To download the app:
iPhone: Download Mobile Carbon Footprinting from the App Store<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mobile-carbon-footprinting/id1340559555>
Android: Download Mobile Carbon Footprinting from the Google Play Store<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mcf.mcfmobileapp>

MIT/Harvard participants will receive $15 for completing the 22-day app pilot and an additional $30 if we invite you for a follow-up interview. All it takes is running the app on your phone, responding to two on-phone surveys, and confirming a daily diary. In the app, you will be able to view the specific dates of the pilot.

You will also be contributing to our research project, based at MIT DUSP, that seeks to map carbon emissions due to daily activities in and around the MIT/Cambridge community.

More info is on our website: www.mobilecarbonfootprinting.org<https://www.mobilecarbonfootprinting.org/>
See below for the formal invitation to participate. E-mail us at cressica at mit.edu<mailto:cressica at mit.edu> or ninamasc at mit.edu<mailto:ninamasc at mit.edu> with any questions.

Thanks in advance for joining us,

Cressica Brazier, PhD Student
Nina Mascarenhas, MCP candidate
Chris Zegras, Associate Professor
Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT


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Invitation to Participate in Pilot App Study
Mobile Carbon Footprinting: Daily Emissions Feedback via Smartphone Apps

If you decide to participate in our smartphone app pilot, please follow the instructions above to sign up.

We are asking participants to run the app for 3 to 4 weeks, and you may continue to use the app after the pilot. The pilot program schedule is displayed on the home screen of the app. We will send you a few e-mail announcements along the way, but you will not need to interact with our research team unless you want to. This is a research pilot app, so we thank you in advance for your patience with the app and our team!

We are seeking participants for a research study conducted by Professor Chris Zegras, PhD student J. Cressica Brazier, and MCP student Nina Mascarenhas from the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.).

The purpose of our study is to pilot a smartphone app that helps individuals and communities understand and manage their carbon footprints due to everyday activities. We invite you to help us explore the potential of new digital technologies in sensing and understanding our daily energy use. We anticipate that this study will lead to publicly available tools for community engagement in climate mitigation planning and personal carbon footprinting.

The study consists of three parts:

1) Download app and sign up: Install the smartphone app and complete an entrance survey (less than 30 minutes)

2) Collect data: Run the smartphone app to automatically collect an 11-day activity diary, and use the app to confirm the diary information (less than 2 minutes per day). In the app, you will see which days are included in the study.

3) Learn from in-app feedback: View carbon footprinting feedback in the app, while running the app for another 11 days to continue confirming the activity diary (less than 2 minutes per day). Then, complete a follow-up survey (less than 20 minutes)


Participants who are MIT/Harvard affiliates and who complete the app pilot will receive a $15 incentive, and we may invite you to a short follow-up interview, for an additional incentive of $30.

You were selected as a possible participant in this study because you are a student, staff member, or friend of the MIT/Harvard community. No specialized knowledge or preparation is required to participate. You will need your own Android or iOS smartphone (iPhone 5s or later) in order to use our app.

This study is completely voluntary. You have the right to end your participation at any time. Feel free to ask us any questions using the contact information below, before deciding whether or not to participate.

Contact information for J. Cressica Brazier: (510) 502-8032, cressica at mit.edu<mailto:cressica at mit.edu>

We greatly appreciate your participation,

Chris Zegras, Associate Professor
J. Cressica Brazier, PhD Student
Nina Mascarenhas, MCP candidate
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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