Changing perspectives on sustainability
Daniela K. Busse, Samuel Mann, Lisa P. Nathan, Chris Preist · 2013
This year's Sustainability SIG invites participants to apply the conference theme "changing perspectives" to sustainability research and practice within the human computer interaction community. As the number of sustainability-oriented endeavors in the field continues to grow, so does the number of critiques on the work undertaken. Perspectives continue to shift concerning how the HCI community "should" attend to the monumental ecosystem changes societies face in the coming decades. For such an enormous problem, is it best to concentrate our limited resources (time, money, people) on compatible approaches in order to build on each other's findings? Do recent critiques risk sundering a nascent community of scholars? Or is it misguided to privilege a limited number of approaches to addressing a complex, problematic situation?