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Designing for conscious human behaviours for eco-friendly interaction
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 […]
Extraordinary computing
May 12, 2009
Susan Wyche gave a paper at CHI recently: Extraordinary computing: religion as a lens for reconsidering the home (ACM DL). In it she uses religion as as a lens to examine assumptions and values that shape future domestic structures. Her focus was not on faith-laden technology, but on how offline faith affects how people interact. Following […]
Interactional trajectories
May 12, 2009
I like the work of Steve Benford. While his paper (From interaction to trajectories: designing coherent journeys through user experiences ACM DL) at CHI was primarily concerned with interaction design, I think that we can see a wider application, particularly into education for sustainability. Instead of one-off functions, Benford considers interactions as a continuty of experiece […]
Process implications of a vision to transform
May 12, 2009
We have long argued that computing needs to contribute more than reductions in its own footprint – computing is key to facilitating a wider change. Several papers at CHI this year showed products to reduce impacts or change behaviour. A few completed this circle and looked back to computing (or in this case interaction […]
Computing for habitual sustainability (and a cool bendy speedometer)
May 12, 2009
Minjung Sohn aims to produce products that are “used unconsciously by users with reduced environmental impacts”. With her colleagues from KAIST, she argues that existing approaches to eco-friendly design mainly focus on educating users, or making them recognise the need for sustainability. In Designing with unconscious human behaviors for eco-friendly interaction, Minjung and her colleagues instead […]
February 15, 2010
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