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Look out for new slogan: “Computing empowers you to do good”
Despite strong career prospects, computing education continues to suffer low student intakes and the rates for women are crazy low (Taulbee report). “Something is wrong with perceptions of computing” can be heard around the halls of every campus and computing conference. The truth may be that something is wrong with computing. There’s a report […]
Handprints to panarchy: 20 more sustainability diagrams
May 26, 2009
Diverse lot to add to the collection this time – from the very simple (how did I miss the balance images so far?) to those representing complex philosophical arguments. The handprint – as a complement to the footprint – is an extremely elegant way to describe the “doing good” or “restorative sustainability”. 159. Spectrum of […]
Hawkin: “the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers”
May 25, 2009
Widely reported, I’m copying this here because a) it’s inspirational and b) he uses computing as the metaphor for the solution, and c) because last year our graduates got a very weird speech about drain-laying. Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009 You are […]
Posted in: Education for Sustainability
Extraordinary computing
May 12, 2009
Susan Wyche gave a paper at CHI recently: Extraordinary computing: religion as a lens for reconsidering the home (ACM DL). In it she uses religion as as a lens to examine assumptions and values that shape future domestic structures. Her focus was not on faith-laden technology, but on how offline faith affects how people interact. Following […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, design
Interactional trajectories
May 12, 2009
I like the work of Steve Benford. While his paper (From interaction to trajectories: designing coherent journeys through user experiences ACM DL) at CHI was primarily concerned with interaction design, I think that we can see a wider application, particularly into education for sustainability. Instead of one-off functions, Benford considers interactions as a continuty of experiece […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, design
Computing for Sustainability 
June 3, 2009
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