Rethinking plan A for sustainable HCI

Knowles, Brandin and Blair, Lynne and Coulton, Paul and Lochrie, Mark (2014) Rethinking plan A for sustainable HCI. In: CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, pp. 3593-3596. ISBN 9781450324731

Abstract

This paper challenges the sustainable HCI community to move away from a focus on demand and instead address climate change as a supply problem. We identify a new route to impact, namely addressing the psychological barriers that interfere with political mobilization toward limiting the use of fossil fuels. Five barriers are explored as a means of refocusing research objectives for the community.