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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 […]

Why have you chosen computing?

December 3, 2013

As part of the development of the Excellence in Communications project, we’re planning an NZ-wide survey of students and industry to get a deeper understanding of IT student and industry values and educational expectations. At the beginning of 2014, CITRENZ will be undertaking a benchmark survey of all incoming IT/computing students: the “Values and Educational […]

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 […]