Statement Our world is a new hybrid living landscape – a balance of our living planet and people along with emerging everyday technologies and digital artifacts. The Living Environments Lab is focused on critical, disruptive, and creative research and prototyping of our future technologies with an emphasis on their impact on both human life (HCI, interface design, usability, experience, empowerment, emotion, etc) and environmental life (sustainability, environmental awareness, alternative energies, new materials and methods for making and re-making). Research within the Living Environments Lab aims to complement and collaborate within a growing community of expert practitioners deeply involved in related work across Carnegie Mellon University (links to be added shortly) as well as outside organizations and individuals. The Living Environmnets Lab will focus on the research challenges in this new "digital divide" between humans and the environment. Let's Change the World Together As scientists, designers, and artists we struggle to understand, test, critique, and envision scenarios of our technological futures, but as humans we have a collective higher calling – an ethical responsibility to acknowledge, address, and improve our own health, the health of our environment, and promote more sustainable lifestyles. There exists both a synergy and tension between the progress of ubiquitous computing and environmental concerns. There is little doubt that technology is able to play a vital role in positive environmental transformations. As UbiComp practitioners in this evolving field of environmental awareness and sustainability, we find more questions than answers. What are the big challenges? How can we combine our expertise? Where can we motivate real change? How can technology promote grassroots efforts and activism? Are there standard approaches we can share? What will really matter? How can we start the change now? Starting in Fall 2008 and homed within CMU's prestigious Human-Computer Interaction Institute the Living Environments Lab begins its investigation... How will you participate?
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Previous Related Work: Eric's DIY Manifesto: A Call to UbiComp Researchers Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism Mobile Persuasion for Everyday Behavior Change Common Sense: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platforms to Support Community Action and Citizen Science Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism
(Workshop Link here) Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability (Full set of Workshop Papers) (Workshop Website) Objects of Wonderment Sensing Atmosphere RE: REempower and REcycle |