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.
Demand in My Pocket: Mobile Devices and the Data Connectivity Marshalled in
Support of Everyday Practice
Understanding Everyday Use of Mobile Phones
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Lord, Carolynne
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Hazas, Mike
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Clear, Adrian K.
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Bates, Oliver
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Whittam, Rosalind
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Morley, Janine
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Friday, Adrian
Proceedings of the ACM CHI'15 Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems
2015-04-18
v.1
p.2729-2738
© Copyright 2015 ACM
Summary: This paper empirically explores the role that mobile devices have come to
play in everyday practice, and how this links to demand for network
connectivity and online services. After a preliminary device-logging period,
thirteen participants were interviewed about how they use their iPhones or
iPads. Our findings build a picture of how, through use of such devices, a
variety of daily practices have come to depend upon a working data connection,
which sometimes surges, but is at least always a trickle. This aims to inform
the sustainable design of applications, services and infrastructures for
smartphones and tablets. By focusing our analysis in this way, we highlight a
little-explored challenge for sustainable HCI and discuss ideas for
(re)designing around the principle of 'light-weight' data 'needs'.
Expanding the Boundaries: A SIGCHI HCI & Sustainability Workshop
Workshop Summaries
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Clear, Adrian K.
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Preist, Chris
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Joshi, Somya
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Nathan, Lisa P.
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Mann, Samuel
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Nardi, Bonnie A.
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'15 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2015-04-18
v.2
p.2373-2376
© Copyright 2015 ACM
Summary: Following a challenge issued to the Sustainable HCI (SHCI) community to
broaden its boundaries to increase breadth and depth of impact [16] this
workshop will explore 5 key questions to encourage SHCI research to play a
broader role in tackling global sustainability issues and to support the
societal change that this will require. Out of this, it will produce a map of
existing and future research agendas, and a collaborative position statement.
It will also provide an environment of support and challenge to allow
individuals working in this research area to consider their personal practice
and the difficulties (both practical and emotional) they may encounter.
Next steps for sustainable HCI
Forums
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Silberman, M. Six
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Nathan, Lisa
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Knowles, Bran
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Bendor, Roy
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Clear, Adrian
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Håkansson, Maria
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Dillahunt, Tawanna
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Mankoff, Jennifer
interactions
2014-09
v.21
n.5
p.66-69
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: In this forum we highlight innovative thought, design, and research in the
area of interaction design and sustainability, illustrating the diversity of
approaches across HCI communities. -- Lisa Nathan and Samuel Mann, Editors
Catch my drift?: achieving comfort more sustainably in conventionally heated
buildings
Sustainability
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Clear, Adrian
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Friday, Adrian
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Hazas, Mike
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Lord, Carolynne
Proceedings of DIS'14: Designing Interactive Systems
2014-06-21
v.1
p.1015-1024
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: Tightly regulating indoor building temperatures using mechanical heating and
cooling contributes significantly to worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. One
promising approach for reducing the energy demand associated with indoor
climate control is the adaptive model for thermal comfort. In this paper, we
explore the challenges and opportunities for supporting the transition toward
adaptive thermal comfort in conventionally heated buildings. We replaced the
heating control system for eight university undergraduates living on campus for
fifty days from January-March 2013. We report on the participants' experiences
of living with and adapting to the change in conditions. We reflect on the
lessons arising from our intervention for researchers and practitioners seeking
to design for sustainability and thermal comfort.
Towards an holistic view of the energy and environmental impacts of domestic
media and IT
Sustainability perspectives
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Bates, Oliver
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Hazas, Mike
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Friday, Adrian
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Morley, Janine
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Clear, Adrian K.
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2014 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2014-04-26
v.1
p.1173-1182
© Copyright 2014 ACM
Summary: To date, research in sustainable HCI has dealt with eco-feedback, usage and
recycling of appliances within the home, and longevity of portable electronics
such as mobile phones. However, there seems to be less awareness of the energy
and greenhouse emissions impacts of domestic consumer electronics and
information technology. Such awareness is needed to inform HCI sustainability
researchers on how best to prioritise efforts around digital media and IT.
Grounded in inventories, interview and plug energy data from 33 undergraduate
student participants, our findings provide the context for assessing approaches
to reducing the energy and carbon emissions of media and IT in the home. In the
paper, we use the findings to discuss and inform more fruitful directions that
sustainable HCI research might take, and we quantify how various strategies
might have modified the energy and emissions impacts for our participants.
Understanding adaptive thermal comfort: new directions for UbiComp
Home heating
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Clear, Adrian K.
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Morley, Janine
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Hazas, Mike
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Friday, Adrian
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Bates, Oliver
Proceedings of the 2013 International Joint Conference on Pervasive and
Ubiquitous Computing
2013-09-08
v.1
p.113-122
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Summary: In many parts of the world, mechanical heating and cooling is used to
regulate indoor climates, with the aim of maintaining a uniform temperature.
Achieving this is energy-intensive, since large indoor spaces must be
constantly heated or cooled, and the difference to the outdoor temperature is
large. This paper starts from the premise that comfort is not delivered to us
by the indoor environment, but is instead something that is pursued as a normal
part of daily life, through a variety of means. Based on a detailed study of
four university students over several months, we explore how Ubicomp
technologies can help create a more sustainable reality where people are more
active in pursuing and maintaining their thermal comfort, and environments are
less tightly controlled and less energy-intensive, and we outline areas for
future research in this domain.
Green food technology: UbiComp opportunities for reducing the environmental
impacts of food
Workshop: green food technology: Ubicomp opportunities for reducing the
environmental impacts of food
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Clear, Adrian K.
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Comber, Rob
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Friday, Adrian
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Ganglbauer, Eva
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Hazas, Mike
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Rogers, Yvonne
Adjunct Proceedings of the 2013 International Joint Conference on Pervasive
and Ubiquitous Computing
2013-09-08
v.2
p.553-558
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Summary: Everyday food and drink consumption makes up a significant proportion of
global greenhouse gas emissions (16% of the total footprint for an average UK
person [3]). Digital technology offers much scope for helping to reduce this --
promoting reflection, increasing transparency of product and supply chain
impacts, and so on -- but the greatest impacts are predicated on a deep
understanding of the configuration of everyday practices. This presents an
interesting challenge for Ubicomp, stemming from the deep social and cultural
influences on what people purchase, eat and throw away. This workshop brings
together participants from a diverse range of disciplines to develop an
understanding of existing food consumption practices, and reflect on how this
domain can profit from novel Ubicomp technology and interaction designs.
Domestic food and sustainable design: a study of university student cooking
and its impacts
Papers: food and health
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Clear, Adrian K.
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Hazas, Mike
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Morley, Janine
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Friday, Adrian
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Bates, Oliver
Proceedings of ACM CHI 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2013-04-27
v.1
p.2447-2456
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Summary: In four university student kitchens over twenty-one days, we captured
participants' food preparation activity, quantified the greenhouse gas
emissions and direct energy connected to the food and cooking, and talked to
participants about their food practices. Grounded in this uniquely detailed
micro-account, our findings inform sustainable design for cooking and eating at
home and quantify the potential impacts. We outline the relation of the impacts
to our participants' approaches to everyday food preparation, the organisation
of their time, and the role of social meals. Our technique allows evaluation of
opportunities for sustainable intervention design: at the appliance, in the
digitally-mediated organisation of meals and inventory management, and more
broadly in reflecting upon and reshaping diet.
Accounting for Energy-Reliant Services within Everyday Life at Home
Home and Energy
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Bates, Oliver
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Clear, Adrian K.
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Friday, Adrian
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Hazas, Mike
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Morley, Janine
Proceedings of Pervasive 2012: International Conference on Pervasive
Computing
2012-06-18
p.107-124
© Copyright 2012 Springer-Verlag
Summary: Researchers in pervasive and ubiquitous computing have produced much work on
new sensing technologies for disaggregating domestic resource consumption, and
on designs for energy-centric interventions at home. In a departure from this,
we employ a service-oriented approach, where we account for not only the amount
of resources that specific appliances draw upon, but also how the associated
services may be characterised in the context of everyday life. We undertook a
formative study in four student flats over a twenty-day period, collecting data
using interviews with eleven participants and over two hundred in-home sensors.
Following an in-depth description of observations and findings from our study,
we argue that our approach provides a more inclusive range of understandings of
resources and everyday life than has been shown from energy-centric approaches.
Situvis: A Visual Tool for Modeling a User's Behaviour Patterns in a
Pervasive Environment
Methods and Tools
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Clear, Adrian K.
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Shannon, Ross
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Holland, Thomas
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Quigley, Aaron J.
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Dobson, Simon A.
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Nixon, Paddy
Proceedings of Pervasive 2009: International Conference on Pervasive
Computing
2009-05-11
p.327-341
© Copyright 2009 Springer-Verlag
Summary: One of the key challenges faced when developing context-aware pervasive
systems is to capture the set of inputs that we want a system to adapt to.
Arbitrarily specifying ranges of sensor values to respond to will lead to
incompleteness of the specification, and may also result in conflicts, when
multiple incompatible adaptations may be triggered by a single user action. We
posit that the ideal approach combines the use of past traces of real,
annotated context data with the ability for a system designer or user to go in
and interactively modify the specification of the set of inputs a particular
adaptation should be responsive to. We introduce Situvis, an interactive
visualisation tool we have developed which assists users and developers of
context-aware pervasive systems by visually representing the conditions that
need to be present for a situation to be triggered in terms of the real-world
context that is being recorded, and allows the user to visually inspect these
properties, evaluate their correctness, and change them as required. This tool
provides the means to understand the scope of any adaptation defined in the
system, and intuitively resolve conflicts inherent in the specification.
