This changes sustainable HCI
Paper in proceeding, 2018

More than a decade into Sustainable HCI (SHCI) research, the community is still struggling to converge on a shared understanding of sustainability and HCI's role in addressing it. We think this is largely a positive sign, reflective of maturity; yet, lacking a clear set of aims and metrics for sustainability continues to be the community's impediment to progressing, hence we seek to articulate a vision around which the community can productively coalesce. Drawing from recent SHCI publications, we identify commonalities that might form the basis of a shared understanding, and we show that this understanding closely aligns with the authoritative conception of a path to a sustainable future proffered by Naomi Klein in her book This Changes Everything. We elaborate a set of contributions that SHCI is already making that can be unified under Klein's narrative, and compare these categories of work to those found in past surveys of the field as evidence of substantive progress in SHCI.

Climate change

Reflective HCI

Sustainable HCI

Sustainability

Author

Bran Knowles

Lancaster University

Oliver Bates

Lancaster University

Maria Håkansson

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction design

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Vol. 2018-April

2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Montreal, Canada,

Subject Categories

Cultural Studies

Communication Studies

Information Systemes, Social aspects

DOI

10.1145/3173574.3174045

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