Understanding and Mitigating the Effects of Device and Cloud Service Design
Decisions on the Environmental Footprint of Digital Infrastructure
Sustainability, Design and Environmental Sensibilities
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Preist, Chris
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Schien, Daniel
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Blevis, Eli
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2016-05-07
v.1
p.1324-1337
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Interactive devices and the services they support are reliant on the cloud
and the digital infrastructure supporting it. The environmental impacts of this
infrastructure are substantial and for particular services the infrastructure
can account for up to 85% of the total impact. In this paper, we apply the
principles of Sustainable Interaction Design to cloud services use of the
digital infrastructure. We perform a critical analysis of current design
practice with regard to interactive services, which we identify as the
cornucopian paradigm. We show how user-centered design principles induce
environmental impacts in different ways, and combine with technical and
business drivers to drive growth of the infrastructure through a reinforcing
feedback cycle. We then create a design rubric, substantially extending that of
Blevis [6], to cover impacts of the digital infrastructure. In doing so, we
engage in design criticism, identifying examples (both actual and potential) of
good and bad practice. We then extend this rubric beyond an eco-efficiency
paradigm to consider deeper and more radical perspectives on sustainability,
and finish with future directions for exploration.
Design Patterns, Principles, and Strategies for Sustainable HCI
Workshop Summaries
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Knowles, Bran
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Clear, Adrian K.
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Mann, Samuel
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Blevis, Eli
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Håkansson, Maria
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.3581-3588
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: This workshop will bring together researchers in the Sustainable HCI (SHCI)
field to reflect on sustainability challenges in HCI and collaboratively
collate and develop a set of strategies for increasing and accelerating
positive impact. We will explore 5 key questions towards this, and produce a
collaborative position statement. Our key objective for the workshop will be to
begin developing a series of design patterns, which we will ground with 'field
trips' to areas of socio-ecological challenge. These design patterns will serve
to provide a resource for practitioners and researchers wishing to adopt a
sustainable approach to their work, and provide a touchstone for critique and
evaluation of this work. The design patterns will contribute to an evolving,
wiki-based repository and form the basis for several collaborative papers.
Transdisciplinary Interaction Design in Design Education
Panels
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Blevis, Eli
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Koskinen, Ilpo K.
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Lee, Kun-Pyo
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Bødker, Susanne
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Chen, Lin-Lin
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Lim, Youn-kyung
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Wei, Huaxin
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Wakkary, Ron
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'15 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2015-04-18
v.2
p.833-838
© Copyright 2015 ACM
Summary: Transdisciplinary design which is the idea of design that transcends
disciplinary boundaries has been proposed as a fourth design paradigm of
interaction design education, scholarship, and practice alongside the
technical, cognitive, and ethnographic paradigms. As an educational concern in
particular, its aim is to teach students how to bring a values orientation to
interaction design. Its focuses are design frameworks, values and ethics,
design for important themes such as sustainability, equity, adaptation,
justice, and social responsibility. This panel maps the state of the art in
transdisciplinary interaction design education, considering also design
scholarship and practice in relation to design education. The panel collects
together a group of educators from chosen to provide a global perspective, with
panelists from Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Korea, and Taiwan.
Ecological Perspectives in HCI: Promise, Problems, and Potential
Workshop Summaries
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Blevis, Eli
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Bødker, Susanne
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Flach, John
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Forlizzi, Jodi
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Jung, Heekyoung
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Kaptelinin, Victor
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Nardi, Bonnie
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Rizzo, Antonio
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'15 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2015-04-18
v.2
p.2401-2404
© Copyright 2015 ACM
Summary: The aim of the workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
practitioners to discuss the present and future of ecological perspectives in
HCI. The participants will reflect on the current uses and interpretations of
"ecology" and related concepts in the field. The workshop will assess the
potential of ecological perspectives in HCI for supporting rich and meaningful
analysis, as well as innovative design, of interactive technologies in
real-life contexts.
Billions of interaction designers
Features
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Blevis, Eli
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Chow, Kenny
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Koskinen, Ilpo
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Poggenpohl, Sharon
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Tsin, Christine
interactions
2014-11
v.21
n.6
p.34-41
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Group selfie
Visual thinking gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2014-11
v.21
n.6
p.88
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Maker paper: folded light art + design
Visual thinking gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2014-07
v.21
n.4
p.80
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Stillness and motion, meaning and form
Pictorials II
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Blevis, Eli
Proceedings of DIS'14: Designing Interactive Systems
2014-06-21
v.1
p.493-502
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: This pictorial essay is a collection of images that picture the theme of
stillness and motion. The intention is to deliberately push at the boundaries
of what a pictorial contribution might be and mean in the context of HCI and
design. In this contribution, the collection of images does not so much play
the role of documentation of process, nor photo-ethnographic design research,
but rather in its curation and concern for both meaning and quality of form, it
is intended as design making in-and-of-itself.
Fashion thinking: lessons from fashion and sustainable interaction design,
concepts and issues
Sustainability
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Pan, Yue
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Blevis, Eli
Proceedings of DIS'14: Designing Interactive Systems
2014-06-21
v.1
p.1005-1014
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: This paper explores the relationships between fashion and Sustainable HCI,
with an eye towards identifying positive design opportunities that create
sustainable good. First, we report on a review of fashion-related literatures
outside of HCI, mostly in sociocultural studies, business and marketing
research. Within HCI, we use Blevis' five sustainable interaction design
principles as a frame to present new directions that arise from thinking about
fashion in relation to sustainability. In order to construct a clear basis for
fashion thinking within the domain of HCI, we postulate six fashion concepts
that owe to literatures outside of HCI. For each fashion concept, we derive a
fashion thinking issue, provide design examples, and propose actionable design
principles, to illustrate the instrumental value that each fashion concept
offers to sustainable HCI. We conclude simply by identifying future research
directions to which we and others may contribute.
Belongings considered harmful
Visual thinking gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2014-05
v.21
n.3
p.80
© Copyright 2014 ACM
What have we learned?: a SIGCHI HCI & sustainability community workshop
Workshop summaries
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Silberman, M. Six
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Blevis, Eli
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Huang, Elaine
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Nardi, Bonnie A.
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Nathan, Lisa P.
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Busse, Daniela
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Preist, Chris
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Mann, Samuel
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2014 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2014-04-26
v.2
p.143-146
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: The role and influence of HCI research in addressing the challenges of
sustainability remains unclear despite ongoing interest.
Sustainability-oriented paper authors, workshop participants, SIG attendees,
and panelists have made ambitious predictions about the contributions of the
CHI community and identified critical directions for the field. But have
lessons from the past decade of HCI & Sustainability research been taken
substantively into practice, within and beyond the CHI community? Have they had
a significant positive influence on the vitality of the world's ecosystems? If
not, how can we re-orient? This workshop is a venue for taking concrete action
to integrate what we have learned about sustainability -- from within and
beyond HCI -- into a common framework to guide the community toward more
influential contributions and more rigorous evaluations of HCI &
Sustainability research.
DIY repair
Visual thinking gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2014-03
v.21
n.2
p.88
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Ultrabark lapdog bag
Visual thinking gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2014-01
v.21
n.1
p.80
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Meaning of life elevator
Forums: Visual Thinking Backpage Gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2013-11
v.20
n.6
p.88
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Collapse informatics and practice: Theory, method, and design
Practice-Oriented Approaches to Sustainable HCI
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Tomlinson, Bill
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Blevis, Eli
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Nardi, Bonnie
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Patterson, Donald J.
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Silberman, M. Six
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Pan, Yue
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
2013-09
v.20
n.4
p.24
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Summary: What happens if efforts to achieve sustainability fail? Research in many
fields argues that contemporary global industrial civilization will not persist
indefinitely in its current form, and may, like many past human societies,
eventually collapse. Arguments in environmental studies, anthropology, and
other fields indicate that this transformation could begin within the next
half-century. While imminent collapse is far from certain, it is prudent to
consider now how to develop sociotechnical systems for use in these scenarios.
We introduce the notion of collapse informatics -- the study, design, and
development of sociotechnical systems in the abundant present for use in a
future of scarcity. We sketch the design space of collapse informatics and a
variety of example projects. We ask how notions of practice -- theorized as
collective activity in the "here and now" -- can shift to the future since
collapse has yet to occur.
Pressing exit
Forums: Visual Thinking Backpage Gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2013-09
v.20
n.5
p.88
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Tablet photography
Forums: Visual Thinking Backpage Gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2013-07
v.20
n.4
p.88
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Avec le temps!: time, tempo, and turns in human-computer interaction
Workshop summaries
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Thomas, John C.
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Pan, Yue
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Erickson, Thomas
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Blevis, Eli
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Letondal, Catherine
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Tabard, Aurélien
Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI'13 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2013-04-27
v.2
p.3303-3306
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Summary: Time is central to HCI. Humans have varying conceptions and experiences of
time: linear versus cyclical; discrete versus continuous; personal versus
collective. Computational systems also represent time in various ways. And
interaction itself plays out over time. Yet HCI has rarely examined time as a
concept in its own right.
In particular, the ways in which people conceive of and experience time are
often at odds with the ways in which interactive systems represent and express
temporal factors. In this workshop we aim to make explicit and question the
tacit assumptions that underlie the use of time in human computer interaction.
The focal themes for this workshop are: (1) examination of people's conceptions
of time vis a vis various topics (e.g. career, fashion, sustainability); (2)
exploration of representations of time in systems; (3) the design of
time-oriented interactive systems that support long term reflection, action and
behavior change (e.g., as it applies to activities and phenomena like careers,
fashion, and sustainability).
Lost icons, Paris 2012
Forums: Visual Thinking Backpage Gallery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2013-01
v.20
n.1
p.88
© Copyright 2013 ACM
EDITED BOOK
Creativity and Rationale: Enhancing Human Experience by Design
Human-Computer Interaction Series 20
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Carroll, John M.
2013
n.20
p.447
Springer London
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4111-2
Creativity and Rationale: The Essential Tension (1-10)
+ Carroll, John M.
Critical Conversations: Feedback as a Stimulus to Creativity in Software Design (11-40)
+ McCall, Raymond
A Micro View of Design Reasoning: Two-Way Shifts Between Embodiment and Rationale (41-55)
+ Goldschmidt, Gabriela
Evaluating Creativity (57-84)
+ Candy, Linda
Integrating Design Representations for Creativity (85-104)
+ Sutcliffe, Alistair
Achieving Both Creativity and Rationale: Reuse in Design with Images and Claims (105-119)
+ McCrickard, D. Scott
+ Wahid, Shahtab
+ Branham, Stacy M.
+ et al
Predecessor Artifacts: Evolutionary Perspectives on a Reflective Conversation with Design Materials (121-141)
+ Mørch, Anders I.
The PRInCiPleS Design Framework (143-169)
+ Blevis, Eli
Using Rationale to Assist Student Cognitive and Intellectual Development (171-196)
+ Burge, Janet E.
+ Brinkman, Bo
Does Design Rationale Enhance Creativity? (197-222)
+ Wang, Jing
+ Farooq, Umer
+ Carroll, John M.
Promoting Group Creativity in Upstream Requirements Engineering (223-236)
+ Ocker, Rosalie J.
Supporting Awareness in Creative Group Work by Exposing Design Rationale (237-257)
+ Farooq, Umer
+ Carroll, John M.
Studying Humans to Inform Interactive Narrative Technology (259-272)
+ Magerko, Brian
Improvisation in the Cloud: Devised Theatre in Support of Problem-Finding (273-285)
+ Petrick, Irene J.
+ Ayoub, Phillip J.
+ Prindible, Matthew J.
The Practice Level in Participatory Design Rationale: Studying Practitioner Moves and Choices (287-325)
+ Selvin, Albert M.
+ Shum, Simon J. Buckingham
+ Aakhus, Mark
Managing Conflict in Information System Design Stakeholder Conferences: The Role of Transparency Work (327-351)
+ Aakhus, Mark
Mining Creativity Research to Inform Design Rationale in Open Source Communities (353-376)
+ Burleson, Winslow
+ Tripathi, Priyamvada
Creativity Meets Rationale: Collaboration Patterns for Social Innovation (377-404)
+ de Moor, Aldo
Patterns for Emergent Global Intelligence (405-422)
+ Thomas, John C.
Collaborative Design Rationale and Social Creativity in Cultures of Participation (423-447)
+ Fischer, Gerhard
+ Shipman, Frank
What if sustainability doesn't work out?
Features
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Tomlinson, Bill
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Patterson, Donald J.
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Pan, Yue
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Blevis, Eli
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Nardi, Bonnie
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Silberman, Six
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Norton, Juliet
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LaViola, Joseph J., Jr.
interactions
2012-11-01
v.19
n.6
p.50-55
© Copyright 2012 ACM
Old scaffolds new
Forums: Digital Imagery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2012-11-01
v.19
n.6
p.88
© Copyright 2012 ACM
Summary: Pointing my digital camera skywards prompted a reflection about how modern
digital electronics depend on vintage infrastructure high-voltage electric
lines.
The elsewheres of product engagement
Forums: Digital Imagery
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Hughes, Lucy
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Atkinson, Douglas
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2012-09-01
v.19
n.5
p.80
© Copyright 2012 ACM
Summary: A man appears so engaged with his iPad, he seems to have forgotten to light
his cigaretteĀa scene observed as part of a group documentary image-making
activity during a workshop on fashion and sustainable HCI at DIS 2012.
An advertisement for Prada sunglasses dwarfs its surroundings in the Paris
airport. The store name on the shop sign advertises an imperative duty to buy
duty free.
INTERNET
Masters of Science in HCI
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Bardzell, Jeffrey
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Bardzell, Shaowen
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Blevis, Eli
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Connelly, Kay
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Groth, Dennis P.
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Hakken, David
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Medina, Eden
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Rawlins, Gregory J. E.
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Sabanovic, Selma
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Siegel, Martin
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Stolterman, Erik A.
2012-08-28
2002-12-02
United States, Indiana, Bloomington
Indiana University
Summary: Masters degree in HCI offered through the School of Informatics at IU.
A matter of fit and fashion
Forums: Digital Imagery
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Blevis, Eli
interactions
2012-07-01
v.19
n.4
p.96
© Copyright 2012 ACM
Summary: During interview studies of attitudes toward fashion and digital materials,
we learned that some people buy laptop computers to fit their bags, rather than
bags to fit their computers.
