A sustainable design fiction

Wakkary, Ron; Desjardins, Audrey; Hauser, Sabrina; Maestri, Leah

doi:10.1145/2509404.2494265

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“…Thirdly, SID focuses on fundamental reconsideration of ICT system design methodologies in HCI to tackle sustainability issues (e.g., DiSalvo et al 2010;Issa and Isaias 2015). Within this genre, a turn to practice has evolved (Wakkary et al 2013), which also is an emerging trend in HCI lately (Rogers 2012). Fourthly, the genre of formative user studies concerns an effort to understand users' ways of conceiving sustainability in their everyday life, and practices, as a means to creating new ICT design solutions Fig.…”

Section: Sustainability Through Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting sustainable intensification in precision agriculture: review of decision support systems development and strategies

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Precision agriculture provides important issues toward a more sustainable agriculture. Many farmers have the necessary technology to operate site-specifically, but they do not use it in practice, and thus available information and communications technology (ICT) systems are not used to their full potential. This paper addresses how to reduce the so-called ''problem of implementation'', based on the knowledge that participatory approaches during the design and development process is one of the most important factors to frame technology adoption. The development of sustainable ICT systems through theories and methodologies from the fields of human computer interaction and user-centered design (UCD) is presented and an ongoing Swedish project for development of an agricultural decision support system (AgriDSS) for nitrogen fertilization is used as an example to frame the issue. The overreaching aim is to develop AgriDSSs that are sustainable in design as well as through design by stressing the importance of participatory approaches for the successful development of AgriDSSs. The Swedish project has the intention to apply a UCD approach, and some pitfalls on starting to use this way of working is identified as well as some suggestions on how to reduce them through co-learning processes. Despite the challenges presented in this paper, ICT can contribute significantly to long-term sustainable development. Thus, several competences and scientific disciplines need to act in concert to help develop a sustainable development of agriculture via a transdisciplinary approach that can make an impact on society at many levels.

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Section: Sustainability Through Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting sustainable intensification in precision agriculture: review of decision support systems development and strategies

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“…While partially a marketing challenge for sustainability generally, positive contributions in this area would include the design of aspirational futures, e.g. through exploration of design fictions [2,32].…”

Section: Addressing Survival Anxiety: Toward Desire For Changementioning

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Rethinking plan A for sustainable HCI

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Blair

Coulton

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Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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This paper challenges the sustainable HCI community to move away from a focus on demand and instead address climate change as a supply problem. We identify a new route to impact, namely to focus on addressing the psychological barriers that prevent the political action needed to affect the supply of fossil fuels. Five barriers are explored as a means of revealing new research objectives for the community.

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“…In our previous work [10], we have observed how the practice of green-DIY has borrowed ideas, competences, and materials from the practice of gardening (e.g. homemade vertical gardens from wood pallets).…”

Section: Cookbooksmentioning

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From DIY tutorials to DIY recipes

Dalton

Desjardins

Wakkary

2014

CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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While online DIY (do-it-yourself) tutorials have increasingly gained interest both at CHI and in the DIY and Maker communities, there is not a lot of research concerning the qualities and drawbacks of the current formats used to share DIY knowledge online. Drawing on our current study of DIY tutorials, in this paper we propose an experimentation in which we 'translate' DIY tutorials from their current formats to a more traditional cookbook style format. We present two tutorials -the Cardboard Desklamp and the DIY Cellphone -with their translation and discuss what we learned from the translation process.

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A sustainable design fiction

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Promoting sustainable intensification in precision agriculture: review of decision support systems development and strategies

Promoting sustainable intensification in precision agriculture: review of decision support systems development and strategies

Rethinking plan A for sustainable HCI

From DIY tutorials to DIY recipes

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