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Print less monkey
Jun Xiao and Jian Fan showed some really slick thinking at CHI. From HP’s Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab, they demonstrated PrintMarmoset, “a browser plugin for sustainability”. In essence, the plug-in hugely reduce the amount of paper used in printing. It does this through automatic content selection and sloppy gesture selection: Impressive as […]
Collaboratively Creative Computing Challenges
May 5, 2009
Sustainability and computing came creatively together in the “Creativity Challenges and Opportunities in Social Computing” panel at CHI recently. The premise for the panel was that “most of the pressing and important problems of today’s world are systemic problems making collaboration supported by social computing not a luxury but a necessity”. The question then becomes […]
Proxemics model for sustainability?
May 5, 2009
Judy Olson gave a plenary talk at CHI recently. She talked about social ergonomics in collated and remote teams. She talked about the next big challenges for interaction design being in large activities: information integration (writing a novel), emergency medical care (from all the participants point of view) and an informed participatory democracy. She approached […]
Mix and match: ICT and future scenarios
April 27, 2009
Sometimes the best things happen by accident. In yesterday’s post I explored Forum for the Future’s Acting now for a positive 2018, preparing for radical change (report pdf). They present four scenarios of what the world might look like in ten years’ time with ICT getting a special consideration in each scenario. I meant to […]
Nice scenarios to follow NICE decade
April 27, 2009
Forum for the Future has done it again with an extremely interesting Acting now for a positive 2018, preparing for radical change (report pdf). They present four scenarios of what the world might look like in ten years’ time. ICT gets a special consideration in each scenario. First though, they recap the last ten […]
Computing for Sustainability 
May 5, 2009
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