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Towards a capability maturity rubric for Sustainable HCI

July 19, 2016

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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

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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

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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

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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.   […]

Arguing in a way that responding challenges my thinking

October 4, 2012

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Jeffrey Bardzell makes some really interesting points in his recent discussion on the nature of peer reviewing of argument papers.  I agree with his approach to reviewing essays, but that is not why I’m writing this post. Jeffrey argues that we should look beyond the usual normative criteria to judge argument/essay papers: Do I agree […]