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View article: What is the impact of a community smart fridge? Investigating food waste, food insecurity and food interactions
What is the impact of a community smart fridge? Investigating food waste, food insecurity and food interactions Open
In the Netherlands, approximately 2,290,000 tonnes of food is wasted each year; meanwhile, as many as 984,000 homes experience mild to severe food insecurity. In this research, we test the impact of a ‘community smart fridge’ pilot interve…
View article: Meta-crisis computing and you: Finding agency through the Two Loops model of change
Meta-crisis computing and you: Finding agency through the Two Loops model of change Open
View article: Pastcasting: engaging with seemingly unreachable futures
Pastcasting: engaging with seemingly unreachable futures Open
View article: Assessing the impact of energy coaching with smart technology interventions to alleviate energy poverty
Assessing the impact of energy coaching with smart technology interventions to alleviate energy poverty Open
View article: Aligning European Union Ambitions of Renewable Energy Communities with Citizens Actions Using United Nations Sustainable Neighbourhood Indexes
Aligning European Union Ambitions of Renewable Energy Communities with Citizens Actions Using United Nations Sustainable Neighbourhood Indexes Open
View article: Climate Change: What is Computing’s Responsibility? (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 25122)
Climate Change: What is Computing’s Responsibility? (Dagstuhl Perspectives Workshop 25122) Open
This Manifesto was produced from the Perspectives Workshop 25122 entitled "Climate Change: What is Computing’s Responsibility?" held March 16-19, 2025 at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. The Workshop provided a forum for world-leading computer s…
View article: Citizen perceptions and interactions towards self-sufficiency, community plot ratio and civic generosity within sustainable neighbourhoods
Citizen perceptions and interactions towards self-sufficiency, community plot ratio and civic generosity within sustainable neighbourhoods Open
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) released design indexes for sustainable neighbourhoods, including self-sufficiency, community plot ratio and civic generosity. However, they are developed from an urban planning perspective a…
View article: Dealing with carbon: physicalisation of academic flying to support collective meaning-making for a low-carbon academia
Dealing with carbon: physicalisation of academic flying to support collective meaning-making for a low-carbon academia Open
View article: Interacting with Environmental Data: Utilizing Weight as a Medium in Enhancing Carbon Literacy
Interacting with Environmental Data: Utilizing Weight as a Medium in Enhancing Carbon Literacy Open
Effectively communicating vital sustainability topics, such as personal CO2e emissions stemming from daily activities, is challenging since there is a general lack of "carbon literacy." Despite efforts, like employing data visualizations, …
View article: Citizen Perceptions and Interactions Towards Self-Sufficiency, Community Plot Ratio and Civic Generosity within Sustainable Neighbourhoods
Citizen Perceptions and Interactions Towards Self-Sufficiency, Community Plot Ratio and Civic Generosity within Sustainable Neighbourhoods Open
View article: How do we arrive at constraints? Articulating limits for computing
How do we arrive at constraints? Articulating limits for computing Open
Computing within Limits invites considerations of limits andconstraints in design practice. We compare two projects whichintegrate constraints, the reduction of academic air travel and asolar powered internet, to show a distinction between…
View article: Exploring Inner Transition: Expanding Computing forSustainability
Exploring Inner Transition: Expanding Computing forSustainability Open
In this position paper we ask what constitutes reasonable personal and collective responses to the predicaments we face as individuals, as societies and globally in the age of escalating sustainability crises.We in particular take our teac…
View article: Degrowth and ICT: a technical report
Degrowth and ICT: a technical report Open
Degrowth is a paradigm that aims to solve current ecological and social problems by prioritising well-being over wealth, which is mainly done by reducing global consumption and production. We have investigated the relation between degrowth…
View article: Towards sustainability assessment of artificial intelligence in artistic practices
Towards sustainability assessment of artificial intelligence in artistic practices Open
An increasing number of artists use Ai in their creative practices (Creative-Ai) and their works have by now become visible at prominent art venues. The research community has, on the other hand, recognized that there are sustainability co…
View article: On the environmental sustainability of Ai art(s)
On the environmental sustainability of Ai art(s) Open
A wide variety of creative practitioners are currently exploring the use of Ai in their work processes, for instance in poetry, music, performance, and visual arts. In this paper, we discuss the relationship between Ai and sustainability i…
View article: Who Gets to Fly?
Who Gets to Fly? Open
In this chapter, we posit that academics need to reduce their flying in line with the ‘Carbon Law’ if we are to attain the agreed-upon targets of the Paris agreement. This entails reducing emissions in general as well as reducing emissions…
View article: Exploring the Problem Space of CO2 Emission Reductions from Academic Flying
Exploring the Problem Space of CO2 Emission Reductions from Academic Flying Open
CO2 emissions from aviation have been predicted to increase over the coming decades. Within the academic world, flying is often perceived to be a necessary prerequisite to being a successful researcher. Many Swedish universities have ambit…
View article: A Decade of Sustainable HCI
A Decade of Sustainable HCI Open
Sustainable HCI (SHCI) constitutes a relatively new research field within HCI. We have identified four literature reviews of the field conducted between 2009-2014. In this paper, we present and discuss the results of a systematic literatur…
View article: Looking backward to the future: On past-facing approaches to futuring
Looking backward to the future: On past-facing approaches to futuring Open
View article: Backfiring and favouring: how design processes in HCI lead to anti-patterns and repentant designers
Backfiring and favouring: how design processes in HCI lead to anti-patterns and repentant designers Open
Design is typically envisioned as aiming to improve situations for users, but this can fail. Failure can be the result of flawed design solutions, i.e. anti-patterns. Prior work in anti-patterns has largely focused on their characteristics…
View article: Skill rebound
Skill rebound Open
Efficiency gains in economic processes often do not deliver the projected overall savings. Irrespective of whether the increase in efficiency saves energy, resources, time or transaction costs, there are various mechanisms that spur additi…
View article: On the Necessity of Flying and of not Flying
On the Necessity of Flying and of not Flying Open
In order to fulfill the Paris agreement, we need to drastically reduce carbon emissions globally. 2020 is a pivotal year in this endeavour as many projections indicate that emissions need to decrease significantly before 2030. This challen…
View article: Play as Work
Play as Work Open
Contemporary images of desirable work (for example at gaming companies or at one of the tech giants) foregrounds creativity and incorporates and idealises elements of play. Simultaneously, becoming one of the best in some particular leisur…
View article: The future of computing and wisdom: Insights from Human–Computer Interaction
The future of computing and wisdom: Insights from Human–Computer Interaction Open
View article: Breaking the Cornucopian Paradigm
Breaking the Cornucopian Paradigm Open
The Internet and digital devices are increasingly embedded in our everyday lives. The hidden environmental impacts of this infrastructure are substantial and quietly growing at an increasing rate. Our collective Internet use is following a…
View article: A Systematic Review of Digital Behaviour Change Interventions for More Sustainable Food Consumption
A Systematic Review of Digital Behaviour Change Interventions for More Sustainable Food Consumption Open
Food production and consumption present major sustainability challenges, and finding ways to reduce the environmental impact of food, for example through behavioural changes by consumers, is becoming increasingly important. In recent years…
View article: En systematisk forskningsoversikt av digitala interventioner for mer hallbara beteenden kring livsmedelskonsumtion
En systematisk forskningsoversikt av digitala interventioner for mer hallbara beteenden kring livsmedelskonsumtion Open
Livsmedelsproduktion och livsmedelskonsumtion medför stora hållbarhetsutmaningar, och det blir allt viktigare att hitta sätt att minska miljöpåverkan orsakad av mat, till exempel genom beteendeförändringar hos konsumenterna. Under de senas…
View article: Undesigning the Internet: An exploratory study of reducing everyday Internet connectivity
Undesigning the Internet: An exploratory study of reducing everyday Internet connectivity Open
Internet connectivity is seamlessly integrated into many of our everyday habits and activities. Despite this, previous research has highlighted that our rather excessive Internet use is not sustainable or even always socially beneficial. I…
View article: A Grand Challenge for HCI: Food + Sustainability
A Grand Challenge for HCI: Food + Sustainability Open
View article: The sharing economy as the commons of the 21st century
The sharing economy as the commons of the 21st century Open
This article aims to make a contribution to the debate on how contemporary collaborative commons, as part of the wider sharing economy, can be understood and supported. Three cases of contemporary commons are analysed: a DIY bike repair st…