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Ubiquitous Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values
www.sustainableinteraction.net
Workshop held in Conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on
Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2007)
September 16th, 2007, Innsbruck, Austria
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This workshop will explore how Ubicomp research can intersect with
values and practices linked to environmental sustainability. Growing
concerns about resource depletion, global warming, and environmental
degradation have led increasing numbers of people to reconsider their
actions and the impact they have on the planet. This upswing in public
interest in making positive change for the environment has substantial
implications for how the Ubicomp community frames and executes the
design of technologies in realms as diverse as energy conservation,
healthcare, home systems monitoring and automation, environmental
monitoring, community planning, and social networking. The goals of
the workshop are to gain an understanding of emerging practices in
which technologies align with emerging environmental values, and to
distill a set of challenges for the Ubicomp community that are
synchronous with those developments.
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Topics
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We encourage submissions exploring the relationship between Ubicomp
and environmental sustainability. We ask authors to pick one of the
following three options:
1. Describe and discuss a project of your own in which Ubicomp
technology follows environmentally sustainable principles or
supports environmentally sustainable values.
2. Consider one of your own projects (either former or current) that
is related to Ubicomp and critique it from the point of view of
environmental sustainability. If the project had been conceived or
designed with environmental values in mind, might it have been
different? If so, how? What if anything might you have done
differently, or what might you do moving forward, if you
considered sustainable issues in your project?
3. Propose a possible research agenda for environmental sustainability
in Ubicomp.
For each of the above options, example topics include (but are
certainly not limited to) the following:
o Product design. How can Ubicomp designers better incorporate
sustainable practices in the design process? What new design
paradigms might emerge from reconsidering products from the
sustainability perspective? How can Ubicomp enable cradle-to-cradle
design of products, and how do cradle-to-cradle principles change
Ubicomp?
o Systems. How can we design more sustainable Ubicomp technologies?
How can infrastructure be designed to maximize its reusability? Can
the energy requirements of Ubicomp systems be dramatically reduced?
Can Ubicomp technologies serve as a substitute for more energy-
intensive alternatives? Can we develop criteria for accurately
evaluating the environmental impacts of a new Ubicomp system before
beginning its development?
o Home technologies. In what ways does Ubicomp research in the home
intersect with the green home phenomenon, and how can Ubicomp
support issues such as monitoring, reconfiguration, and co-evolution
of residents and home technologies?
o Monitoring technologies. How can Ubicomp help people better
understand energy consumption? What sorts of sensors might be useful
for this purpose? To what extent can studies of how technology is
used help identify opportunities for changing personal behavior
related to energy consumption?
o Social networking technologies. How can social networking
technologies be used to motivate sustainable behavior? What
paradigms are likely to be most effective?
o Persuasive technologies. In what ways might Ubicomp be used to
encourage more sustainable behaviors? How can people be supported in
their efforts to change their daily practices and reduce resource
consumption?
o Personal action technologies. How can Ubicomp support personal
actions such as protest or subversive resistance to effect change?
For example, can Ubicomp sensor networks or social sensing be used
to support the environmental justice movement by documenting
developing problems or potential misdeeds?
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Workshop Format
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The workshop will be highly interactive, and activities will be
designed to stimulate discussion and creativity. The workshop will be
an opportunity to explore ideas for innovative design and
implementation strategies and principles, as well as to identify
relevant areas of synergy within the Ubicomp community. Throughout the
day, the organizers will draw on concepts from human-computer
interaction, anthropology, and design to guide and facilitate
discussion. The workshop will be structured into four sessions. In the
first session, the organizers will present themes that emerged from
the participants' position papers (based on an analysis the organizers
will conduct before the workshop). Each participant will also give a
brief overview of the paper they submitted. In the second session,
participants will participate in a brainstorming session. In the third
session, participants will further explore the interactions between
technological interventions and environmental values. In the final
session, we will engage in a discussion about the most interesting
and difficult problems that came out of each activity, and identify
key outcomes and challenges. In order to facilitate interaction, we
anticipate the workshop will be limited to 15-20 participants.
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Participation and Registration
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We welcome submissions from individuals who are passionate about the
interaction between Ubicomp and environmental sustainability. A
background in sustainability is welcome but is not required to
participate in this workshop. We welcome submissions from researchers,
practitioners, and students from both academia and industry. Authors
of accepted papers are expected to register (details to be be posted
at a later date). In general, we expect that one author from each
accepted submission will participate in the workshop (if space
permits, it may be possible to arrange for additional authors to
attend the workshop, but we can not guarantee this).
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Submission Content and Format
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We ask that prospective authors prepare a submission based on one of
the options described above. Each submission should also include a
biography stating the participant's background and motivation for
submitting to the workshop, and should be in English and in PDF
format. Each submission should be 2-4 pages total (including all
content, figures, and biography). Accepted position papers will appear
in the adjunct proceedings and should follow the 2-column
Springer-Verlag format (two-columns, A4-size, no page numbers).
A template will be made available at the UbiComp website.
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Submission Instructions
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Please email your submission to [log in to unmask]
by 11:59pm PST on June 11, 2007.
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Important Dates
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June 11, 2007: Workshop position paper submission deadline 11:59pm PST
July 1, 2007: Notification of acceptance/rejection of position papers
July 14, 2007: Camera-ready deadline for accepted position papers
Sept 16, 2007: Workshop takes place in Innsbruck, Austria
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Workshop Organizers
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Jay Hasbrouck (Intel Digital Home Group)
Tom Igoe (ITP, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU)
Jennifer Mankoff (HCII Institute, CMU)
Allison Woodruff (Intel Research Berkeley)
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Contact Information
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Please contact [log in to unmask] with any queries.
d a ri a l o i [PhD]
research scientist | design researcher
domestic designs & technologies research
user experience group
i n t e l corporation
digital home platform
20270 NW amberglen ct., AG1-112
beaverton, OR 97006 USA
t: +1 503 456-2927
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