LIMITS

In computing there is a small but growing community who desire to make sense of the role of computing in a world with limits. This community has provided a much needed critical perspective on what has otherwise been computing's contribution to a ...

Sustainable HCI research is often framed in terms of correction and control, such as designing persuasive technology to encourage individual behavior change or to optimize energy consumption. But as others have argued, correction and control-based ...

Tracking food along its supply chain is essential to ensuring aspects of food security such as quality and safety. Food tracking can be broadly aimed at promoting sustainable food systems. Based on the literature, we devise a preliminary framework ...

Our climate is changing rapidly, and the effects of that have shown themselves through the droughts in California. In an effort to become more resilient, people become more interested in growing their own food, but do not have sufficient gardening ...

The future is inherently hard to predict, yet we know there are various factors that will limit the future of computing (scarcity of materials, energy shortages and various biophysical limits) in both substantial and disruptive ways. When we look at the ...

Design For Sustainability (D4S) is an established and popular perspective for discussing environmental, economic, and social considerations in product design. Design participants use the concept of Sustainability to discuss short- and long-term ...

Cultures of making have received broad attention within HCI studies of design and material production, surfacing the uneven social and political consequences of maker visions. Less explored but equally important in this scholarship is what it means to ...

Owners of electronic devices typically decide whether or when they become e-waste or are still reusable. For a device in a commons model, where devices are collectively owned and managed, we propose restricting this individual choice in favour of the ...

Increasingly digital technology is implicated in promoting ever more convenient access to products and services. At just a click, user interfaces promote 'instant gratification', deliberately leveraging human behaviours and addictions, to promote ...

There are significant negative impacts from extracting, processing, maintaining, and ultimately disposing of the materials used to support information technology, as well as of producing the energy it uses, yet these negative impacts receive ...

This paper reflects upon disableism and constrained computing by drawing on a recent multi-stage mixed methods research project that focused on a "public washrooms" open dataset released by the City of Vancouver. During that project, I encountered some ...