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Hopeful tourism computing?

November 21, 2013

A couple of weeks a ago I interviewed Tess Brosnan, a film maker who wanted to talk about links between citizen science and hopeful tourism. This led me to read Annette Pritchard, Nigel Morgan and Irena Ateljevic’s “Hopeful tourism: A new transformative perspective” (pdf). I found myself reading while mentally replacing “tourism” with “computing”. For […]

There’s a word for that: Anupholesteraphobia

October 15, 2013

I found myself reading a book on music performance (long story). I like this page, and this awesome word: Anupholesteraphobia: The fear of not being able to cover the material. We could replace music with any discipline for quite a bit of insight. In education those of us who advocate Education for Sustainability see it […]

Chris Preist on Sustainable Lens

May 28, 2013

For the last three years I’ve been recording extended interviews with researchers and practitioners at CHI. Here’s the first of this year’s recordings: Dr Chris Preist (click through for pod). Chris is Reader in Sustainability and Computing Systems at University of Bristol. We talk about his background; his work at HP and Forum for the […]

Sounds like Sustainable Computing (2)

May 28, 2013

Adding to the list of shows on Sustainable Lens of particular interest to people in computing, here are some recent shows: Dr Andy Williamson on the role of social media in democracy Beth Karlin on the empowering role of information and communication technology in environmental change Dr Sylvia Nagl on systems thinking and knowledge economies Self described “permageek” Danyl Strype on […]

Scaling up trajectories?

March 31, 2013

I’m thinking about the trajectory work of Steve Benford (Yes, I know I’ve been doing this for a while). Trajectories offer a way of thinking about the design of extended user experiences. I’m wondering if we can scale that up for thinking about the role of computing in societal change. Last week we interviewed Hordur […]