Carter wandered into the kitchen this morning, eager to tell me about his night with Daddy.
Carter: Daddy told me the Jurrasic Park story last night but he’s not very good on the dinosaurs.
Me: Umm- he didn’t actually write the story, he’s just retelling it.
Carter: Well, he wasn’t very good with the dinosaurs because if [...]
Sustainability is a hot topic. Partial credit goes to Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina that preceded the movie. In the world of human-computer interaction, designers are now thinking deeply about the consequences of their creations. Last spring, IU School of Informatics professor Eli Blevis presented his research paper—”Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Disposal, Renewal & Reuse“— to the international CHI community in San Jose, California. This seminal work jump-started formal research about how design and sustainability are related.
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