CFP for CHI 2010 Workshop: Examining Appropriation, Re-use, and Maintenance
for Sustainability

Call for Participation

As computing environments evolve at a rapid pace, computing artifacts
quickly become obsolete. Accordingly, this creates myriad kinds of e- waste,
raising concerns in sustainability. Over the past few years, the HCI
community has opened up a wide range of conversations regarding the role and
future directions of HCI in sustainability. Building on top of the previous
discussions, this workshop attempts to channel the community's expertise and
creativity to advance further and seek practical and concrete sustainable
design opportunities in utilizing old and obsolete computing artifacts.

About the Workshop

This one-day workshop will include brief introductions, small group design
activities, and group discussion surrounding the following questions:

1.     What are the challenges or limitations that hinder progress in
sustainable design, specifically in reusing, appropriating, and maintaining
used and obsolete digital artifacts?

2.     What are realistic, practical, and creative solutions to utilizing
used and obsolete digital artifacts? (Through the collaborative design
activity session, the participants will brainstorm creative and innovative
design ideas for prolonged use and reuse.)

3.     How can we evaluate what is a success in sustainable design for
appropriation, re-use, and maintenance? How long is prolonged use, and how
practical do the design outcomes need to be? How scalable should the
solutions be?

Position Papers

We welcome submissions from authors who are interested in and/or currently
working in the area of sustainable interaction design. Specifically, people
with background in hardware electronics, interaction design, and social
computing are encouraged to submit. Position papers should describe your
work on the topic, ideas for appropriation, reuse, recycle, and maintenance
of old/obsolete computing artifacts, or general ideas about the role of
obsolete computing artifacts
in sustainability. Please email submissions of 1500 words or fewer in PDF
format by Jan 6, 2010 to [log in to unmask] The acceptance will be notified
by Jan 30, 2010.

At least one author of accepted papers must register for the workshop and at
least one day of the conference. More information on the workshop can be
found at the CHI 2010 website or:

http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~jinah/chi2010/reuse.html

Workshop organizers

Jina Huh is a doctoral candidate at the School of Information, University of
Michigan. She studies the relationship between perceived control of
information and perceived proximities of information spaces, and how this
affects people's information management practices.

Six Silberman is a PhD student in the Informatics department at UC Irvine.
His current projects are guided by an interest in the social, political,
economic, and ecological implications and opportunities associated with
widespread uptake of novel communication technologies, and in
ecological-economic systems and environmental justice.

Lisa P. Nathan is an Assistant Professor at the School of Library, Archival
and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She
holds a Ph.D. in Information Science from the University of Washington.
Lisa's empirical work includes a two year investigation of value tensions
around changing information technology practice within
sustainability-oriented intentional communities.

Eli Blevis is an Associate Professor of Informatics in the HCI/d program of
the School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) at Indiana
University-Bloomington. His primary research interests are sustainable
interaction design, design theory, and studio-based learning and culture.

Bill Tomlinson is an Associate Professor of Informatics at the University of
California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology. His research areas include
environmental information technology, human- computer interaction, and
computer-supported learning.

Phoebe Sengers is an Associate Professor in Information Science and Science
& Technology Studies at Cornell University.  She analyzes, designs, and
builds interactive systems in cultural and political context.

Daniela Busse, UX Director at SAP, focuses on business software for Energy
Management. Her prior work also includes carbon labeling and sustainable
business design. She has been active in the CHI and User Experience field
for over 13 years, and holds a Ph.D. from Glasgow University.