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Fridge door sustainability
Yesterday I was reviewing my notes on Ron Wakkary’s Rethinking users as creative everyday designers. He gives an example of a family calendar to illustrate his argument that sustainable interaction design will be promoted by thinking about the users as everyday designers. What he didn’t say was that calendar was part of a family’s […]
Rethinking users as creative everyday designers
May 5, 2009
Ron Wakkary and Karen Tanenbaum argue that by adopting a conception of the user as a creative everyday designer we can generate a new set of design principles that promote sustainable interaction design: Everyday design offers a formal lens through which to reconsider interactions with and the use of designed artifacts in the home. The everyday designer is a […]
Support for participation beyond the wiki’s blank page
May 5, 2009
It is hard to go far in the sustainability world before you hit ideas of participation. Kurt Luther presented an interesting development in this field at CHI recently. In a paper entitled “Pathfinder: An Online Collaboration Environment for Citizen Scientists” he (and others) examined computer support for citizen science. Inspired by the Christmas Bird […]
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Print less monkey
May 5, 2009
Jun Xiao and Jian Fan showed some really slick thinking at CHI. From HP’s Multimedia Interaction and Understanding Lab, they demonstrated PrintMarmoset, “a browser plugin for sustainability”. In essence, the plug-in hugely reduce the amount of paper used in printing. It does this through automatic content selection and sloppy gesture selection: Impressive as […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Collaboratively Creative Computing Challenges
May 5, 2009
Sustainability and computing came creatively together in the “Creativity Challenges and Opportunities in Social Computing” panel at CHI recently. The premise for the panel was that “most of the pressing and important problems of today’s world are systemic problems making collaboration supported by social computing not a luxury but a necessity”. The question then becomes […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
May 6, 2009
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