1st Edition

Digital Technology and Sustainability Engaging the Paradox

Edited By Mike Hazas, Lisa Nathan Copyright 2018
260 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book brings together diverse voices from across the field of sustainable human computer interaction (SHCI) to discuss what it means for digital technology to support sustainability and how humans and technology can work together optimally for a more sustainable future. Contemporary digital technologies are hailed by tech companies, governments and academics as leading-edge solutions... Read more

Photo Essay 1: Selfie Time

Eli Blevis

Introduction: Digital Technology and Sustainability: Engaging the paradox

Mike Hazas and Lisa P. Nathan

Photo Essay 2: Artifice and Nature

Eli Blevis

Part 1: Assessing the Field

Chapter 1: Three Principles of Sustainable Interaction Design, Revisited

David Roedl, William Odom and Eli Blevis

Chapter 2: Towards a Social Practice Theory Perspective on Sustainable HCI Research and Design

Adrian K. Clear and Rob Comber

Chapter 3: A Conversation Between Two Sustainable HCI Researchers: The role of HCI in a Positive Socio-Ecological Transformation

Samuel Mann and Oliver Bates

Response 1a: Sustainable HCI: From Individual to System

Chris Preist

Response 1b: Sustainability within HCI within Society: Improvisations, Interconnections and Imaginations

Janine Morley

Photo Essay 3: Rooftop Garden

Eli Blevis

Part 2: Addressing Limits

Chapter 4: Every Little Bit Makes Little Difference: The Paradox within SHCI

Somya Joshi and Tessy Cerratto Pargman

Chapter 5: Developing a political economy perspective for sustainable HCI

Bonnie Nardi and Hamid Ekbia

Chapter 6: Software Engineering for Sustainability: Tools for Sustainability Analysis

Birgit Penzenstadler and Colin C. Venters

Response 2: Challenging the Scope?

Enrico Constanza

Photo Essay 4: Classroom Exercise

Eli Blevis

PART 3: Ways To Engage With Others

Chapter 7: Communicating SHCI Research to Practitioners and Stakeholders

Christian Remy and Elaine M. Huang

Chapter 8: Negotiating and Engaging with Environmental Public Policy at Different Scales

Vanessa Thomas

Chapter 9: On the Inherent Contradictions of Teaching Sustainability at a Technical University

Elina Eriksson and Daniel Pargman

Chapter 10: Participation in Design for Sustainability

Janet Davis and Sandra Burri Gram-Hansen

Response 3a: Connected and Complicit

Mél Hogan

Response 3b: From Participatory Design to Participatory Governance through Sustainable HCI Rónán Kennedy

Photo Essay 5: Airstream

Eli Blevis

Part 4: Inspiring Futures

Chapter 11: A Sustainable Place: Everyday Designers as Place Makers

Audrey Desjardins, Xiaolan Wang, and Ron Wakkary

Chapter 12: Interaction Design for Sustainability Futures: Towards Worldmaking Interactions

Roy Bendor

Chapter 13: Think Local Act Local: The Case of Burning Man

a.m. tsaasan and Bonnie Nardi

Response 4: Sustainability Futures and the Future of Sustainable HCI

Yolande Strengers

Photo Essay 6: Locked Gate

Eli Blevis

Epilogue:

Mike Hazas and Lisa P. Nathan

Biography

Mike Hazas is Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University.

Lisa P. Nathan is Assistant Professor at the School of Library Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia.