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Hawkin: “the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers”
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
Process implications of a vision to transform
May 12, 2009
We have long argued that computing needs to contribute more than reductions in its own footprint – computing is key to facilitating a wider change. Several papers at CHI this year showed products to reduce impacts or change behaviour. A few completed this circle and looked back to computing (or in this case interaction […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability, design
Computing for habitual sustainability (and a cool bendy speedometer)
May 12, 2009
Minjung Sohn aims to produce products that are “used unconsciously by users with reduced environmental impacts”. With her colleagues from KAIST, she argues that existing approaches to eco-friendly design mainly focus on educating users, or making them recognise the need for sustainability. In Designing with unconscious human behaviors for eco-friendly interaction, Minjung and her colleagues instead […]
Computing for Sustainability 
May 25, 2009
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