Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse

@article{Blevis2007SustainableID,
  title={Sustainable interaction design: invention \& disposal, renewal \& reuse},
  author={Eli Blevis},
  journal={Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year={2007}
}
  • Eli Blevis
  • Published 29 April 2007
  • Art
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
This paper presents the perspective that sustainability can and should be a central focus of interaction design-a perspective that is termed Sustainable Interaction Design (SID). As a starting point for a perspective of sustainability, design is defined as an act of choosing among or informing choices of future ways of being. This perspective of sustainability is presented in terms of design values, methods, and reasoning. The paper proposes (i) a rubric for understanding the material effects… 
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