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Abstract Generator for Professional Practice Research

August 28, 2024

Professional practice research integrates both a practice challenge or opportunity, and professional development, usually an articulation of a professional framework of practice. These two sides need to play nicely. This integrated approach can make it challenging to describe and summarise, especially when all the exemplars are for more traditional research. This template is adapted from […]

Towards a capability maturity rubric for Sustainable HCI

July 19, 2016

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 […]

2025 fictional abstracts – role of computing in sustainable development

December 11, 2014

This is such an interesting challenge. Ten years is within research horizons, close enough not to get distracted by hoverboards but far enough away to think outside the box. I’m going for a positive vision, then trying to work out the steps to get there. Imagining all my current research has bourne fruit is […]

The role of activism in ICT for Sustainability: Learning from practitioners

March 11, 2014

Here’s the draft of the paper we just finished. It is based on our conversations published as podcasts on SustainableLens. Samuel Mann, Shane Gallagher, Nell Smith Abstract— This paper describes an analysis of responses to the question “do you consider yourself to be an activist?” and applies the learnings from that to computing for sustainability. […]