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Extraordinary computing
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tools for navigating landscape of community action
May 12, 2009
In the early 90s I worked on the Otago Regional Council’s land and vegetation monitoring programme. One of the strategies we used was to closely involve the land managers in monitoring and analysis. We hoped (and found) this would give greater credibility to the process and ownership of the results. The involvement stemmed beyond labour […]
Sustainable Computing meets Ecologically Engaged Art
May 6, 2009
As I am reminded several times a day via gmail’s pop-up, my friend Lloyd Godman describes himself as an “Ecological Artist”. At CHI this year, Carl DiSalvo (along with Kirsten Boehner, Nicholas Knouf and Phoebe Sengers) explored what sustainable HCI can learn from such ecologically engaged art. They argue that radical shifts in design are needed for […]
Computing for Sustainability 
May 12, 2009
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