Print Email Facebook Twitter Automatic Processing of User-Generated Content for the Description of Energy-Consuming Activities at Individual and Group Level Title Automatic Processing of User-Generated Content for the Description of Energy-Consuming Activities at Individual and Group Level Author de Kok, Roos (Student TU Delft) Mauri, A. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Bozzon, A. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Date 2019 Abstract Understanding and improving the energy consumption behavior of individuals is considered a powerful approach to improve energy conservation and stimulate energy efficiency. To motivate people to change their energy consumption behavior, we need to have a thorough understanding of which energy-consuming activities they perform and how these are performed. Traditional sources of information about energy consumption, such as smart sensor devices and surveys, can be costly to set up, may lack contextual information, have infrequent updates, or are not publicly accessible. In this paper, we propose to use social media as a complementary source of information for understanding energy-consuming activities. A huge amount of social media posts are generated by hundreds of millions of people every day, they are publicly available, and provide real-time data often tagged to space and time. We design an ontology to get a better understanding of the energy-consuming activities domain and develop a text and image processing pipeline to extract from social media the description of energy-consuming activities. We run a case study on Istanbul and Amsterdam. We highlight the strength and weakness of our approach, showing that social media data has the potential to be a complementary source of information for describing energy-consuming activities. C 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Subject Energy consumptionEnergy-consuming activitiesMachine learningOntologySocial media To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:7d65120e-01eb-4f80-94b2-36e1bf2da971 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/en12010015 ISSN 1996-1073 Source Energies, 12 (1), 1-28 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Roos de Kok, A. Mauri, A. Bozzon Files PDF 50446232_energies_12_00015.pdf 9.96 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:7d65120e-01eb-4f80-94b2-36e1bf2da971/datastream/OBJ/view