May 9, 2012 @ 09:30, Room: 13B
Course 22: Advanced Research & Design for Sustainability - Course
Contribution & Benefit: This course will provide an advanced treatment of the domain of Sustainable HCI. Prior knowledge of the field is required, or attendance of the related CHI course ‘Introduction to … Sustainability’.
Abstract » Research and Design for Sustainability is increasingly recognized as an essential focus for the CHI community, but the topic presents unique challenges in its definition, its concrete impact on User Experience as a discipline and field of research, and its tactical implementation in day-to-day practitioners’ work.
In this advanced course, we will briefly recap the key learnings of the related CHI course ‘Introduction to Research and Design for Sustainability’, and will then focus on helping participants internalize and solidify those learnings in studio-style exercises, in which we introduce well- scoped case study problems to the participants to apply specific sustainability research and design frameworks, methods, and approaches.
This course targets researchers as well as practitioners alike, who are currently working in, or are interested in the field of Research and Design for Sustainability. Even though the course will touch on industrial/product design for sustainability, its main focus will be on software products and holistic experiences.
Experienced researchers or professionals are welcome to participate in this course, as are those having attended the related ‘Introduction to Research and Design for Sustainability’.
Both instructors have been involved in Sustainable Research and Design for a number of years, one in a research and educational setting (at Indiana University - Bloomington), the other in a corporate R&D environment (most recently at Samsung Research). Eli Blevis leads the Sustainable Interaction Design research group at Indiana. Daniela Busse has been working on various Sustainability projects since 2006 (e.g. on Energy Management, Carbon Labeling, Business Design for Sustainability). Both have co-authored several CHI panels, workshops and a SIG on sustainable HCI, were invited speakers at the National Science Foundation Workshop for an HCI & Sustainability research agenda in 2010, and are recognized as leading figures in Sustainable HCI.
In this advanced course, we will briefly recap the key learnings of the related CHI course ‘Introduction to Research and Design for Sustainability’, and will then focus on helping participants internalize and solidify those learnings in studio-style exercises, in which we introduce well- scoped case study problems to the participants to apply specific sustainability research and design frameworks, methods, and approaches.
This course targets researchers as well as practitioners alike, who are currently working in, or are interested in the field of Research and Design for Sustainability. Even though the course will touch on industrial/product design for sustainability, its main focus will be on software products and holistic experiences.
Experienced researchers or professionals are welcome to participate in this course, as are those having attended the related ‘Introduction to Research and Design for Sustainability’.
Both instructors have been involved in Sustainable Research and Design for a number of years, one in a research and educational setting (at Indiana University - Bloomington), the other in a corporate R&D environment (most recently at Samsung Research). Eli Blevis leads the Sustainable Interaction Design research group at Indiana. Daniela Busse has been working on various Sustainability projects since 2006 (e.g. on Energy Management, Carbon Labeling, Business Design for Sustainability). Both have co-authored several CHI panels, workshops and a SIG on sustainable HCI, were invited speakers at the National Science Foundation Workshop for an HCI & Sustainability research agenda in 2010, and are recognized as leading figures in Sustainable HCI.