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Ethics and sustainability
A student asks a great question: Why does the Polytechnic focus on a sustainable viewpoint in everything it does, rather than an ethical one? We spend a few weeks discussing ethics in Software Engineering, but acting ethically and in the interests of society is a cultural shift, not academic knowledge. Surely sustainable practices would flow […]
Top three readings for Sustainable HCI
May 15, 2014
At the sustainable HCI workshop at CHI this month we each agreed to contribute our top three “must reads” for Sustainable HCI (spoiler, none of these papers even mention Sustainable HCI). Of course, I’d recommend my own books and other writings, but beyond that, here are my three (current) “must reads”. 1. Sigrid Stagl’s […]
Impressed with Interactions
March 18, 2014
This month’s edition of Interactions is pretty much a must read, cover to cover. Seriously great job Ron Wakkary and Erik Stolterman. Here are some of the highlights for me: (other papers that are also great include collaborative design, collective action, reframing design for aging (aging is neither an absolute concept nor a sum of established […]
The role of activism in ICT for Sustainability: Learning from practitioners
March 11, 2014
Here’s the draft of the paper we just finished. It is based on our conversations published as podcasts on SustainableLens. Samuel Mann, Shane Gallagher, Nell Smith Abstract— This paper describes an analysis of responses to the question “do you consider yourself to be an activist?” and applies the learnings from that to computing for sustainability. […]
Am I an activist?
February 26, 2014
Ben Shneiderman declared at CHI last year that “HCI is an activist discipline”. We’re trying to work out the implications of this – what would it mean for computing to be an activist discipline? (see also Hopeful Tourism Computing). To find out, I’ve been trawling through the podcasts for sustainablelens.org where we ask […]
Computing for Sustainability 
October 5, 2014
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