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Computing for habitual sustainability (and a cool bendy speedometer)
Minjung Sohn aims to produce products that are “used unconsciously by users with reduced environmental impacts”. With her colleagues from KAIST, she argues that existing approaches to eco-friendly design mainly focus on educating users, or making them recognise the need for sustainability. In Designing with unconscious human behaviors for eco-friendly interaction, Minjung and her colleagues instead […]
Tools for navigating landscape of community action
May 12, 2009
In the early 90s I worked on the Otago Regional Council’s land and vegetation monitoring programme. One of the strategies we used was to closely involve the land managers in monitoring and analysis. We hoped (and found) this would give greater credibility to the process and ownership of the results. The involvement stemmed beyond labour […]
Sustainable Computing meets Ecologically Engaged Art
May 6, 2009
As I am reminded several times a day via gmail’s pop-up, my friend Lloyd Godman describes himself as an “Ecological Artist”. At CHI this year, Carl DiSalvo (along with Kirsten Boehner, Nicholas Knouf and Phoebe Sengers) explored what sustainable HCI can learn from such ecologically engaged art. They argue that radical shifts in design are needed for […]
Persuasive guidelines for behaviour change
May 6, 2009
A theme of CHI for me this year was behaviour change. This reflects the growing recognition that technology is at best only part of a solution. Sunny Consolvo and her colleagues presented an interesting set of design strategies that support behaviour changes in everyday life (paper). They propose that persuasive technology developed following their guidelines will […]
Fridge door sustainability
May 6, 2009
Yesterday I was reviewing my notes on Ron Wakkary’s Rethinking users as creative everyday designers. He gives an example of a family calendar to illustrate his argument that sustainable interaction design will be promoted by thinking about the users as everyday designers. What he didn’t say was that calendar was part of a family’s […]
Computing for Sustainability 
May 12, 2009
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