Open Sustainability Innovation—A Pragmatic Standpoint of Sustainable HCI

This Changes Everything – ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?

2018

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When frameworks and design principles for open innovation and open sustainability innovation (OSI) were established in earlier research, their foundations were originated from the expanded concepts of universal design (UD) from human-computer interaction (HCI) in a prescriptive form. This also was the basis of an inclusive innovation framework (IIF) aiming for a sustainable information system design. In this paper the IIF originating from the concept of combining UD and open innovation (OI) in promoting information technology enabling sustainability goals was analyzed together with OI and OSI frameworks. The role of OI in formulating the IIF was thereby strengthened, which in parallel helped recognizing the extended conceptions of sustainable HCI (SHCI) and its future research path through the use of IIF.

Section: Open Innovation and Open Sustainability Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Sustainable HCI Research Dimensions Through the Inclusive Innovation Framework

This Changes Everything – ICT and Climate Change: What Can We Do?

2018

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“…However, considering UD previously proved to be useful in research conducted by Mustaquim and Nyström [9,10] when UD was viewed as a useful resource for sustainability achievement. Historically, UD as a concept was introduced as a solution to accessibility problems detected in the environment and products and it resulted in seven design principles [15] that should permeate the design process.…”

Section: Sustainability and Universal Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Some Aspects of Using Universal Design as a Redesign Strategy for Sustainability

2016

Progress in IS

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Sustainability is something that unites humankind and the important 2015 UN Climate Change Conference manifested this and was described by many as our last chance. A shifting towards sustainability through design is a challenge for managers and policymakers of organizations since the existing system or product could be complex and may have difficulty to adopt such a shift. This paper explores how organizations and their designers and developers could benefit from having a predictable process to follow for conducting such a shift, since numerous challenges are associated with costs and revenues. While universal design (UD) is a design philosophy closely associated with the sustainable design, an advanced perspective of UD could be implied as a redesign strategy for existing design and may be used as a radical design and innovation strategy for sustainability. In this paper, some of the aspects of UD as a redesign strategy for sustainability are addressed. Based on the previous theoretical frameworks, a UD approach for redesigning towards sustainability was formulated and discussed.

“…Hitherto UD was primarily focusing on design for disabled and impaired people, but Mustaquim and Nyström [23] has expanded the concept from the governing focus on accessibility by integrating it into the design of sustainable IT systems. UD was further used by Mustaquim and Nyström [24,26] in designing information systems aiming for sustainability, and furthermore in the development of an open sustainability innovation framework. Another advanced way of viewing UD in HCI is to take classical HCI theories and design philosophies like UD into consideration for accomplishing sustainable actions [25].…”

Section: Universal Design and Its Advanced Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It has also been acknowledged to be a key component of sustainable design, and it is often stated that the twenty first century design needs to be universal for being sustainable, and vice versa. Advanced ways of looking into UD for accomplishing sustainability is evident in the work of Mustaquim and Nyström [23,26]. As design and innovation is connected to sustainability achievement, it is valuable to explore how different innovation levels associated with sustainability achievement could be triggered by UD and its advanced concept.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Universal design as a cause of triggering innovation levels for sustainability-a deliberative concept

Proceedings of the 19th International Academic Mindtrek Conference

2015

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Sustainability achievement through design could be seen as a connective result of design and innovation. The role of universal design (UD) for sustainability is well known, although how any innovation through this could be produced by the practice of UD is not evident. Different innovation levels could be triggered positively towards sustainability by practicing UD in an advanced way. In this paper, different innovation levels associated with sustainability achievement were scrutinized within the scope of UD. It was presented how the advance perspective of UD could have a direct impact on incrementing innovation levels of organisations, thereby ensuing sustainability. The advance concept of UD was then revisited in a deliberative way to justify the argument of the extensiveness of UD beyond the traditional scope of the accessibility domain only. Finally, the concept of sustainable human-computer interaction (HCI) was also re-explored within the context of UD and its practice.