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Towards a capability maturity rubric for Sustainable HCI
I’ve long been a fan of Bob Willard’s organisational sustainability maturity index – here’s a post from 2007. I’ve used it many times, including this talk to Young Enterprise. Now for a book chapter I’m writing with Oliver Bates we’ve had a go at using it for a rubric for considering the sustainabilityness of Human […]
Upcoming workshop: The role of ICT in transforming society through engaged communities
July 20, 2015
I’m very happy that this workshop will be held at ICT4S in September (see more info here) On the basis that sustainability problems are not amenable to single-point interventions (because they are both wicked and numerous), we need a step-change in how we approach ICT4S. Rather than trying for separate interventions for every aspect, or for […]
Top three readings for Sustainable HCI
May 15, 2014
At the sustainable HCI workshop at CHI this month we each agreed to contribute our top three “must reads” for Sustainable HCI (spoiler, none of these papers even mention Sustainable HCI). Of course, I’d recommend my own books and other writings, but beyond that, here are my three (current) “must reads”. 1. Sigrid Stagl’s […]
Impressed with Interactions
March 18, 2014
This month’s edition of Interactions is pretty much a must read, cover to cover. Seriously great job Ron Wakkary and Erik Stolterman. Here are some of the highlights for me: (other papers that are also great include collaborative design, collective action, reframing design for aging (aging is neither an absolute concept nor a sum of established […]
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 […]
Computing for Sustainability 
July 19, 2016
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