[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2008-01-11 Thread You Le Chong
Hi, I am youle, an interaction design student from Umea Institute of Design. In November 2007, I was seeking for advice in IxDA for my degree project in Sustainability. During the past years, I always asked myself about the role of interaction designer in sustainability... and still I wasn't sure

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-07 Thread youle
Hi all, These few weeks had been really dense and constructive for me. I had learned so much and see so many new things about sustainability, ecology and ways to approach my project. I am overwhelming with the helps and support. I took a step back yesterday trying to digest all the information. I

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-04 Thread Anderson, Douglas W.
Hello again You Le, The latest issue of Implications newsletter from InformeDesign at the University of Minnesota bears on your topic. You can have a look at http://www.informedesign.umn.edu/Newsletter.aspx All the best, Doug *C

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-04 Thread Anderson, Douglas W.
3:43 +0100 From: "You Le Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I am an Interaction Design student from the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden. I am taking my master degree in Interaction Design and am now pr

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-04 Thread Sebi Tauciuc
Hi Youle, Very good observation that people behavior is important. I would even say that people not only have to be involved, but they must actually drive the change towards sustainability. I would put it like this: People's *attitude* towards sustainability can be positively influenced by: - ca

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-04 Thread kara rae gareza
Hi Youle, You said For example the 2-stage-toilet-flush system gives people the choice of flushing. They are not forced but educated indirectly. Does this approach works? How can it be implemented more in design to achieve sustainability? It returns to my first few questions, what makes peop

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-03 Thread David Malouf
For those in NYC on Jan 24th I thought I'd give a little heads up that the NYC IxDA in association with O2NYC organized a panel on the subject of Sustainable Interaction Design moderated by Executive Creative Director @ frog design NYC, Robert Fabricant and will include a great panel of practitione

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-02 Thread Oleh Kovalchuke
Youle, In the last century, US corporations have developed a billion dollar PR industry to promote desire driven, consumerist economy. Watch BBC documentary 'The Century of the Self' by Adams Curtis for one informed account [1, 2]. Incidentally the public relations industry hires interaction desig

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-02 Thread Marijke Rijsberman
Youle, In answer to your question "what makes people participate in sustainability?": their friends. Same thing as what makes them lose/gain weight, to mention an example that made it into the news very recently. I'm sure there are social networking applications that would help shift the tipping

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-12-02 Thread youle
Thanks for your comments and suggestions. It has been a very revealing weekend for me reading through all the links that you all have shared. The article "Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Disposal, Renewal & Reuse" by Eli Blevis is very inspiring. Mike Jones from Smart Design also reco

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-11-30 Thread Richard I. Anderson
Look for a forum entitled, "Sustainably Ours" edited (and sometimes written) by that unnamed author (???) in upcoming issues of interactions magazine (under new management), as "announced" in http://riander.blogspot.com/2007/07/on-green-design.html. Richard At 9:13 AM -0500 11/30/07, Jeff Whi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-11-30 Thread Jeff White
Go Boilermakers. :-) On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:23:09, Nick Quagliara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can also try contacting Erik Stolterman who is part of the > Sustainable Interaction Design Research Group (SIDRG) at Indiana > University (where Eli Blevis the author of the aforementioned paper > t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-11-30 Thread Nick Quagliara
You can also try contacting Erik Stolterman who is part of the Sustainable Interaction Design Research Group (SIDRG) at Indiana University (where Eli Blevis the author of the aforementioned paper teaches). Erik Stolterman also happens to come to Indiana University from the Department of Informatic

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-11-30 Thread Jeff White
Hi You Le, I think your project is a very interesting and worthwhile one, and frankly one that IxDA has not paid close enough attention to, in my opinion. It has come up a few times on the list: http://beta.ixda.org/search.php?tag=sustainable Also, see these resources: ACM Digital library - CHI

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design in Sustainability

2007-11-29 Thread You Le Chong
Hi, I am an Interaction Design student from the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden. I am taking my master degree in Interaction Design and am now preparing for my graduation project, which will last for 20 weeks starting from 20thJanuary 2008. The theme I want to develop is: What could be the ro