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#Gaik 2025 (first go at 2025 abstract)
Prompted by this request, here’s my first go at an abstract for a 2025 critical computing conference. (the editors rightly say that it is too long and not scientific enough so another one on the way). This paper reviews the work of the celebrated ecohacker artist known only as #Gaiak. Beginning in 2015 with individual […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
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 […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, research
Ethics and sustainability
October 5, 2014
A student asks a great question: Why does the Polytechnic focus on a sustainable viewpoint in everything it does, rather than an ethical one? We spend a few weeks discussing ethics in Software Engineering, but acting ethically and in the interests of society is a cultural shift, not academic knowledge. Surely sustainable practices would flow […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Communication and passion common theme for IT employers
August 20, 2014
Here are my notes from tonight’s seminar on IT careers. Seven speakers represented some of NZ’s leading IT companies. (these notes originally posted as facebook comments, they’re unedited other than a couple of typos). Simon Ferrari from Datacom – what he looks for: people who are socially comfortable, well adjusted, intelligence but transcripts not important, […]
Posted in: Bachelor of Information Technology, NZ Computing
Epic quest – proposed new landscape of qualifications for NZ computing
August 4, 2014
This week sees the release of the final consultation version of the new landscape of qualifications for IT. This fourth round of consultation is open for feedback until the 20th August. I’ve spent the past year on the TRoQ Steering Group for the review and have attended most of the subject based working group meetings representing […]
Posted in: education, NZ Computing
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 […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, HCI
January 19, 2015
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