The NEVERMORE project partner Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) successfully released a publication entitled “Imagining Sustainable Futures: Expanding the Discussion on Sustainable HCI”.
This is the second paper on Human Computer Interaction (HCI), and Sustainable HCI (SHCI) specifically, published by FBK in the frame of the NEVERMORE Project. This article presents the results of the workshop on climate change that FBK led at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023, the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
The paper was co-authored by Eleonora Mencarini, Christina Bremer, Chiara Leonardi, Jen Liu, Valentina Nisi, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Robert Soden.
INSIGHTS
- HCI researchers should work with other disciplines and include nonhuman perspectives to develop a systemic understanding of climate change.
- A cultural shift from the concepts of persuasion, personhood, and property toward collectively nurtured common goods is needed to trigger collective action.
- Hopeful visions of the future might help to contrast eco-anxiety and denialism.
For the past 15 years, in light of biodiversity loss, ocean acidifcation, droughts, foods, and threats to humans’ and on humans’ health, life, and activities, HCI researchers have been refecting on the role their work can play in reducing the impact of climate change. Recently, the discourse on climate change in the HCI community has expanded to include efective communication to raise citizens’ awareness, policy design, the value of biodiversity, and the perspectives of nonhuman actors. During CHI 2023, we organized the workshop “HCI for Climate Change: Imagining Sustainable Futures” [1] to map the various perspectives from which the CHI community currently addresses the problem of climate change. By bringing together these diferent perspectives, our intent was to find contact points among them and create
synergies to imagine sustainable futures together. The workshop was met with great interest, highlighting the need for
discussion spaces on climate change in the CHI community. We received 46 submissions (40 of which were accepted) and welcomed 53 participants (16 online and 37 in person in Hamburg, Germany).
Link to the paper: Read the full paper here.