Call For Participation
Key dates
Submission deadline:
January 27, 2012 *extended*
Acceptance
notification: February 10, 2012
Workshop day: Sunday
May 6, 2012
The goal of this one-day CHI Sustainability Community
workshop is to discuss how to design for simpler
lifestyles as part of a more holistic view on
sustainability. What roles do technologies play in
adding complexity, feeding busyness, and inducing
unsustainable lifestyles? What is the responsibility of
HCI in understanding these roles and providing simpler,
more sustainable ways of living?
We invite researchers and practitioners from multiple
disciplines interested in issues related to the
relationship between technology and the
‘complexification’ of life to discuss the possibilities
and tensions in designing IT to support simpler
lifestyles. These issues could be examined from
theoretical, empirical, and/or speculative or practical
design perspectives.
Topics may
include, but are not limited to:
- Anytime, anywhere access with mobile technologies
- Personal information management and the
complication or simplification of everyday life
- Designing for slowness, reflection, and/or
minimalism
- Technology avoidance
- Family practices around complexity and simplicity
- The intersection between human and environmental
sustainability
- Cultural perspectives on complex and simple
lifestyles
- Critical reflections on using IT to support simple
living
To participate,
please send a 2-4 page position paper by
January 27, 2012
using the
ACM
paper format to mch267 at cornell dot edu,
describing:
1. The work you have done on this topic and how is it
related to this workshop.
2. One or two key issues, challenges, or opportunities
you are interested in discussing in the workshop. Why
are they important? How do you envision making progress
in addressing them?
Please note that
all workshop participants must register for both the
workshop and for at least one day of the main
conference. See prices
here.
Download the
entire workshop proposal
here.
For more information,
please contact Maria Håkansson (mch267 at cornell
dot edu).