Beth Karlin, Ph.D.
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Publications

I tend to publish most of my work in journals and conference proceedings (although I am starting to branch out a bit into the popular press - stay tuned). I've listed my papers below by topic and included links, when available. If you're not able to access any of them, contact me and I'll send you a copy!

Film and Social Change

Blakley, J., Karlin, B., Trotta Valenti, L., Brenner, C., & Amel Rogers, A. (2017). From the Sofa to the Streets: Strategies to Ignite Social Action through Documentary Media. MIP Insights Series. USC Norman Lear Center, Los Angeles, CA. 
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Karlin, B., Murphy, C., & Ahu, K. (2014). Exploring a New Model of Global Citizenship: An Evaluation of the Fourth Estate Leadership Summit. UC Irvine: Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. 

Karlin, B., Penzenstadler, B., & Cook, A. (2014). Pumping up the Citizen Muscle Bootcamp: Improving user experience in online learning. Proceedings of the 2014 Human Computer Interaction (HCII) Conference. Crete, Greece: ACM. 

Karlin, B. (2013). Film to School (FtS) Programs: Active Engagement for Filmmakers in Education.  Proceedings of ISA ’13: International Studies Association: San Francisco, CA: ISAnet.

Karlin, B. & Matthew, R. (2012). Kony 2012 and the Mediatization of Child Soldiers. Peace Review, 24(3), 255-261.

Karlin, B. (2012). Educating, Empowering & Engaging Through Film-Based Activism: A Survey of Invisible Children Participation and Impacts. UC Irvine: Center for Unconventional Security Affairs. 

Karlin, B. (2012). Power through Participation: Impacts of Youth Involvement in Invisible Children. Proceedings of ISA ’12: International Studies Association: San Diego, CA: ISAnet. 

Karlin, B. (2012). The Social, the Media, and the Activism: Kony Meets World. Opinio Juris.
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Karlin, B. & Johnson, J.S. (2011). Measuring impact: The importance of evaluation for documentary film campaigns.  M/C Journal 14(6).

Technology and Energy Use

Pritoni, M., Ford, R., Karlin, B., & Sanguinetti, A. (2018). Home energy management (HEM) database: A list with coded attributes of 308 devices commercially available in the US. Data in Brief , 16 , 71-74.

Karlin, B., Lupkin, L., Forster, H., Zaval, L., Koleva, S., & Ford, R. (2017). From Categorizing to Characterizing: A Landscape Analysis of Behavior-Based Energy Programs. San Francisco, CA: Pacific Gas and Electric. 
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Ford, R., Pritoni, M., Sanguinetti, A., & Karlin, B.  (2017). Categories and functionality of smart home technology for energy management. Building and Environment , 123 , 543-554.

Karlin B., Koleva S., Kaufman J., Sanguinetti A., Ford R., Chan C. (2017) Energy UX: Leveraging Multiple Methods to See the Big Picture. In: Marcus A., Wang W. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: Understanding Users and Contexts. DUXU 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10290. Springer.

Ford, R., Karlin, B., Sanguinetti, A., Nersesyan, A., & Pritoni, M. (2016). Assessing Players, Products, and Perceptions of Home Energy Management. San Francisco, CA: Pacific Gas and Electric.

Ford, R., Karlin, B.,  & Frantz, C. (2016). Evaluating Energy Culture: Identifying and validating measures for behaviour based energy interventions. Proceedings of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference . Amsterdam: IEPEC. Retrieve at http://www.ieppec.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Paper-Ford.pdf

Cornish, L., Karlin, B., Sanguinetti, A., & Kaufman, J. (2016). How do small businesses experience energy reports? Proceedings of the 2016 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings. Pacific Grove, CA: ACEEE.

Karlin, B., Ford, R., & Zinger, J., (2015). The Effects of Feedback on Energy Conservation: A Meta-Analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 141(6), 1205–1227.  DOI: 10.1037/a0039650.

Karlin, B., Ford, R., & Frantz, C.M., (2015). Exploring Deep Savings: A Toolkit for Assessing Behavior-Based Energy Interventions. Proceedings of the International Energy Program Evaluation Conference. Long Beach, CA: IEPEC.    

Karlin, B., Sanguinetti, A., Davis, N., Bendanna, K., Figueira, K., Baker, J., Kirkby, D., & Stokols, D. (2015). Diffusion of Feedback: Perceptions and Adoption of Devices in the Residential Market. A. Marcus (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2015 Human Computer Interaction (HCII) Conference, pp. 368-379). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20889-3_35

Karlin, B., Ford, R., Sanguinetti, A., Squiers, C., Gannon, J., Rajukumar, M., & Donnelly, K.A. (2015). Characterization and Potential of Home Energy Management (HEM) Technology. San Francisco, CA: Pacific Gas and Electric.

Karlin, B., Ford, R., Wu, A., Nasser, V., & Frantz, C. (2015). What Do We Know About What We Know? A Review of
Behaviour-Based Energy Efficiency Data Collection Methodology
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 Report prepared for the International Energy Agency Demand Side Management Program (IEA-DSM) Task 24-Behaviour Change in DSM.
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Karlin, B., Davis, N., Sanguinetti, A., Gamble, K., Kirkby, D., & Stokols, D. (2014). Dimensions of conservation: Exploring differences among energy behaviors.  Environment and Behavior, 46(4) 423–452.   DOI: 10.1177/0013916512467532.

Karlin, B., Ford, R., & Squiers, C. (2013). Energy Feedback Technology: A Review and Taxonomy of Products and Platforms. Energy Efficiency, 7, 377-399. ​DOI: 10.1177/0013916512467532.

Ford, R. & Karlin, B. (2013). Graphical Displays in Energy Feedback Technology: A Cognitive Approach. A. Marcus (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2013 Human Computer Interaction (HCII) Conference, pp. 486-495). Springer-Verlag. 

Karlin, B.  & Ford, R. (2013). The Usability Perception Scale (UPscale): A measure for evaluating feedback displays. A. Marcus (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2013 Human Computer Interaction (HCII) Conference. Springer-Verlag. 

Karlin, B. & Ford R. (2013a). Beyond kWh: A New Tool for Assessing Behavior-Based Energy Interventions. Report prepared for the International Energy Agency Demand Side Management Program (IEA-DSM) Task 24-Behaviour Change in DSM.

Karlin, B. (2012).  Public Acceptance of Smart Meters: Integrating Psychology and Practice. Proceedings of the 2012 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings.Pacific Grove, CA: ACEEE.

Karlin, B. (2011). Tracking and learning: Exploring dual functions of residential energy feedback. In Proceedings, 6th Annual International Conference on Persuasive Technology. Columbus, OH: ACM.

Environmental Psychology

Karlin. B. (2014). Attitudes and behaviors. in Debra Rowe, ed. Achieving Sustainability: Visions, Principles, and Practices. Detroit: Macmillan, pp. 40-44.

Karlin. B. (2013). Technology and Psychology - Natural enemies or just plain natural? Ecopsychology. 5(4), 217-218. 
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Sustainability Education

Karlin, B., Carr Kelman, C., Goodrich, K., & Lowerson, V. (2017). The Role of the University: Engaged Scholarship in the Anthropocene. In Dinar, A. (Ed.), The Social Ecology of the Anthropocene: Continuity and Change in Global Environmental Politics. World Scientific Publishers. 

Karlin, B., Goodrich, K., Chen, M., Jimenez, M., Nguyen, P., Tran, A. (2015). Engaged Scholarship as an Alternative to
Public-Private Partnerships
. Proceedings of the International Studies Association (ISA) Convention. New Orleans, LA.​

Penzenstadler, B., Richardson, D., Tomlinson, B., Fleischmann, K. R., Becker, C., Nathan, L., Blevis, E., Silberman, S., Karlin, B., Norton, J. & Raturi, A. (2015). ICT for Sustainability—Current and future research directions. iConference 2015 Proceedings.

Penzenstadler, B., Richardson, D. J., Karlin, B., Cook, A., Callele, D., & Wnuk, K. (2014). Using Non-Profit Partners to Engage Students in RE. In REET (pp. 1-10).


Karlin, B.,
Davis, N., & Matthew, R. (2013). GRASP: Testing an Integrated Approach to Sustainability Education. Journal of Sustainability Education, Spring 2013: Experiential Education, Part One. 
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Risk Communication

Adams, R. M., Karlin, B ., Eisenman, D. P., Blakley, J., & Glik, D. (2017). Who Participates in the Great ShakeOut? Why Audience Segmentation Is the Future of Disaster Preparedness Campaigns. International journal of environmental research and public health , 14 (11), 1407.

​Houston, D., Cheung, W., Basolo, V., Feldman, D., Matthew, R., Sanders, B. F., Karlin, B ., Schubert, J.E., Goodrich, K.A., Contreras, S. & Luke, A. (2017). The Influence of Hazard Maps and Trust of Flood Controls on Coastal Flood SpatialAwareness and Risk Perception. Environment and Behavior , 0013916517748711.
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Feldman, D., Contreras, S., Karlin, B., Basolo, V., Matthew, R., Sanders, B. Houston, D., Cheung, W., Goodrich, K., Reyes, A., Serrano, K., Schubert, J. & Luke, A. (2016). Communicating flood risk: Looking back and forward at traditional and social media outlets. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 15, 43-51.

Cheung, W., Houston, D., Schubert, J.E., Basolo, V., Feldman, D., Matthew, R., Sanders, B.F., Karlin, B., Goodrich, K.A., Contreras, S.L., & Luke, A. (2016). Integrating resident digital sketch maps with expert knowledge to assess spatial knowledge of flood risk: A case study of participatory mapping in Newport Beach, California. Applied Geography 74, 56-64