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Designing for conscious human behaviours for eco-friendly interaction

February 15, 2010

I’m off to CHI in April. Last year I was impressed by all the work going on in Sustainable Interaction Design (see my post on Sohn’s paper). Nearly 12 months later, I’m not so sure. Here’s my position paper for a workshop on SID. Much of the work in Sustainable interaction design (SID) has […]

Update from Dad in Cambodia

November 24, 2009

Here’s an update from my Dad (John Mann) on the work he’s doing for Beaudesert Rotary building schools in the village of Chuor Ph’av, Cambodia (and now, it seems, Koh te Cho). This post is my editing together of five emails – so, sorry Dad if I’ve mixed it up (here’s an earlier update). Dear […]

Software Engineering class explores our handprint

November 19, 2009

Our software engineering students have proven again that computing can make a bigger contribution than energy in the data centre. We’ve been working with the Dunedin 350 campaign. All semester, groups have been working with their client – Ella Lawton – to develop systems to raise awareness and engage people in climate change. […]

Sustainability Pictures X

November 6, 2009

Ten more for the collection. Breaking my rule of stand-alone images but these seemed quite evocative, even if they do take some explanation. See also these variations on earlier approaches: Venn diagrams coming together and showing changing dominance of sectors in a static animation, and a nice systems loop. 179. Brown’s 15 elements […]

Almost 350

October 23, 2009

Including sleep, there’s 15 hours until we have to be coherent and on show for 350. Student projects are rapidly emerging and getting hurried testing (hopefully not too hurried!). If you’re in Dunedin, come and see us at the Spring Festival. (more Flickr images).