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Talking at the Intersection of Games and Sustainability
SustainableLens.org explores a sustainable view of the word, usually with an extended interview (last week Nicole Foss told us that politicians who promised growth were deluded or lying, the week before, Bill McKibben said “If 1 degree warming melts the Arctic, we’re fools to be experimenting with the earth to find out what 2 degrees will do”). This year, […]
Posted in: game
Crowdsourcing student business challenge
May 29, 2013
I’m helping run a student business startup competition: Audacious. This year we’re experimenting with crowdsourcing: Audacious Skulksource. The system is 95% complete in terms of interaction design and functions, just missing some graphic elements and real text. The objectives are: To provide a vehicle for student engagement beyond the entrants; To provide a […]
Posted in: student
Chris Preist on Sustainable Lens
May 28, 2013
For the last three years I’ve been recording extended interviews with researchers and practitioners at CHI. Here’s the first of this year’s recordings: Dr Chris Preist (click through for pod). Chris is Reader in Sustainability and Computing Systems at University of Bristol. We talk about his background; his work at HP and Forum for the […]
Posted in: CHI, Computing for Sustainability
Sounds like Sustainable Computing (2)
May 28, 2013
Adding to the list of shows on Sustainable Lens of particular interest to people in computing, here are some recent shows: Dr Andy Williamson on the role of social media in democracy Beth Karlin on the empowering role of information and communication technology in environmental change Dr Sylvia Nagl on systems thinking and knowledge economies Self described “permageek” Danyl Strype on […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
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 […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, HCI
Computing for Sustainability 
June 23, 2013
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