From autumn 2023 to spring 2025, BIRD UX worked together with Claudius Brodmann (Claudius on LinkedIn) on the UX strategy and User Experience Design of the research project GrowFlowFly, a collaborative project of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), RWTH Aachen University (RWTH), and aratall GmbH.
GrowFlowFly Final Report
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Last week, the final report for GrowFlowFly was published and can be downloaded free of charge as a PDF from ReNaTe (Repository for Natural Sciences and Technology) : https://oa.tib.eu/renate/items/8038eb24-6b6f-4897-9270-c6776b4b22e2
Excerpt from the summary“The increasing urgency of transforming energy systems calls for innovative approaches to optimally utilize energy and land-use potentials while more strongly integrating positive design potentials contributed by citizens. The aim of this research project was to develop a digital participation tool and to pilot it in two structural transformation regions (NW & ST) with both experts and citizens. The project conducted a comparative acceptance analysis between conventional renewable energy technologies - wind turbines and ground-mounted photovoltaic systems - and land-efficient innovative renewables, including agri-photovoltaics, floating photovoltaics, and airborne wind energy, while also evaluating the tool’s design and participation potential. In addition to the technological parameters of the renewable energy types, key acceptance factors, landscape-structural spatial requirements, as well as user experience and gamification elements were developed interdisciplinary as framework parameters for the gamification tool.(...)”
GrowFlowFly is a prime example of what can be achieved when science, experience design, and technology work together as a team. Since User Experience Design can help convey comprehensive content and information playfully to users without prior knowledge, the usage of UX in research projects can play a decisive role.
More about the participating companies and organisations
- The network partners and their contact persons: Technische Universität München (TUM) – Prof Dr Sören Schöbel-Rutschmann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) - Prof Dr Gundula Hübner (Environmental and Social Psychology), RWTH Aachen University (RWTH) – Prof. Dr Dieter Moormann (Institute of Flight System Dynamics), aratall GmbH, Osnabrück – Stefan W. Kauling, https://www.aratall.com/
- Associated project partnersTU Delft, Projekt MEnergie (TH Köln et al.), Kreis Düren, Gemeinde Aldenhoven, Energieavantgarde Anhalt e.V. Dessau, Airborne Wind Europe aisbl - Brussels, regstrom e.V. Halle, Saline Technikum (Berufliches Bildungswerk e.V., Halle Saalkreis), Next2Sun Agri-PV - Dillingen/Saar, Krinner GmbH Agri-PV - Straßkirchen, BayWa r.e. - Projektentwicklung PV DE München, Stadtwerke Düren
