Exploring (un)sustainable growth of digital technologies in the home
| Autor: | Carolynne Lord, Mike Hazas, Oliver Bates, Bran Knowles, Adrian Friday, Adrian K. Clear |
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Architectural engineering
Engineering Ubiquitous computing Management science business.industry G400 05 social sciences 020207 software engineering 02 engineering and technology Energy consumption 7. Clean energy Lead (geology) Work (electrical) 13. Climate action 11. Sustainability Sustainability 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences N100 Set (psychology) Everyday life business Sustainable growth rate 050107 human factors |
| Zdroj: | Lancaster University-Pure EnviroInfo/ICT4S (1) Proceedings of EnviroInfo and ICT for Sustainability 2015 |
| Popis: | HCI and Ubicomp research often centres around the support of humans interacting with digital technology. Despite this obvious focus, there seems to be less work on understanding how these digital technologies can lead to growth in use, dependence, and influence practices in everyday life. In this paper we discuss how digital technologies have been, and continue to be, adopted in domestic practices—and how the growth of interactions with various ecologies of digital technologies can lead to growth in use and energy consumption. We further the discussion within ICT4S and sustainable HCI on how to promote research that encourages sustainability as a core concern—socially, economically, and ecologically—emphasising that defining limits to growth are important when trying to affect change in sustainable directions. We echo calls for more significant sustainability research from HCI, and set out some avenues of design for moving in this direction. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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