Designing for Sustainability – Links and References
By Gerd Waloszek, SAP User Experience, SAP AG – Updated: December 1, 2011
Books | Articles, Papers | Keynotes, Talks, and More | Links
Below, you will find a collection of books, papers, and links for the topic of design for sustainability, including SAP-specific links with respect to sustainability. Some references appear in articles in this highlight topic, some were used for the articles but were not cited, while others have been cited by listed references (particularly some original sources that are hard to get). Please note that we cannot guarantee that the links provided below will work in the future.
Books
Sustainability, Biomimicry
- Janine M. Benyus (2002). Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Harper Perennial • ISBN: 0060533226 • Review
- Nathan Shedroff (2009). Design Is the Problem. Rosenfeld Media • ISBN:
1-933820-00-4 (Paperback + PDF), ISBN: 1-933820-01-2 • Review
- Complimentary book Website (blog) • Downloadable diagrams and screenshots from the book
- Nathan Shedroff's World (homepage)
Groupware, Collaboration, Social Media, Future Trends
- Ben Shneiderman, Cathérine Plaisant, Maxine Cohen & Steven Jacobs (2009). Designing the User Interface (5th Edition). Chapter 9: Collaboration and Social Media Participation. Pearson Addison-Wesley • ISBN-10: 0321537351 • ISBN-13: 978-0321537355 (Hardcover) • Review
- Derek Hansen, Ben Shneiderman & Marc Smith (2010). Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL. Morgan Kaufmann • ISBN-13: 9780123822291 • Review
- Gary M. Olson, Ann Zimmerman & Nathan Bos (Eds.) (2008). Scientific Collaboration on the Internet, The MIT Press • ISBN-10: 0262151200, ISBN-13: 978-0262151207 • Review
- Bruce Sterling (2005). Shaping Things. MIT Press • ISBN: 0262693267 (Paperback), ISBN: 026219533X (Hardcover) • Review
Articles, Papers
Interactions Magazine
- Carl DiSalvo, Phoebe Sengers, Hrönn Brynjarsdóttir (2010). Navigating the Terrain of Sustainable HCI, Interactions, September/October 2010.
- Batya Friedman, Lisa Nathan, David Henry (2009). Information System Design as Catalyst: Human Action and Environmental Sustainability. Interactions, July/August 2009, p. 6-11.
- Victor Margolin (2009). The Waste Manifesto. Interactions, July/August 2009, p. 12-15.
- Eric Schweikhardt (2009). User Centered Is Off Center. Interactions, May/June 2009, p. 12-15.
- Nathan Shedroff (2009). Design: A better Path to Innovation. Interactions, November/December 2008, p. 35-41.
CHI 2011-2009
- James Pierce, Hrönn Brynjarsdóttir, Phoebe Sengers, Yolande Strengers (2011). Everyday practice and sustainable HCI. Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (extended abstracts).
- Carl DiSalvo, Phoebe Sengers, Hrönn Brynjarsdóttir (2010). Mapping the Landscape of Sustainable HCI. Proceedings of the 28th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, p. 1975-1984
- Carl DiSalvo, Kirsten Boehner, Nicholas A Knouf, Phoebe Sengers (2009). Nourishing the ground for sustainable HCI. Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, 385-394.
DIS 2010
Sustainability
- Paul Dourish, Department of Informatics, University of California, USA (2010). HCI and Environmental Sustainability: The Politics of Design and the Design of Politics . Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 1-10.
- Loove Broms, Cecilia Katzeff, Åsa Nyblom, Magnus Bång, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Karin Ehrnberger (2010). Coffee Maker Patterns and the Design of Energy Feedback Artefacts. Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 93-102.
- Li Jönsson, Loove Broms, Cecilia Katzeff (2010). Watt-Lite; Energy Statistics Made Tangible. Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 240-243.
- Tanyoung Kim, Hwajung Hong, Brian Magerko, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (2010): Design Requirements for Ambient Display that Supports Sustainable Lifestyle
- James Pierce, Eric Paulos (2010). Materializing Energy. Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 113-122.
- James Pierce, Chloe Fan, Dereke Llomas, Gabriella Marcu, Eric Paulos (2010). Some considerations on the (in)effectiveness of residential energy feedback systems for interaction design and HCI. Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 244-247.
Ambient Displays and Media
- Aviaja Borup Lynggaard, M. G. Petersen, R. Gude, M. Mortensen (2010). Home Awareness – Connecting People Sensuously to Places. Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 416-418.
- Thomas Visser, Martijn Vastenburg, David Keyson (2010). SnowGlobe: The Development of a Prototype Awareness System for Longitudinal Field Studies. Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 416-418.
- Tomaso Scherini, Paulo Melo, Toon Van Craenendonck, Wenzhu Zou, Maurits Kaptein (2010). Enhancing the Sleeping Quality of Partners Living Apart (Short Paper). Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 171-174. (Video)
- Tanyoung Kim, Hwajung Hong, Brian Magerko (2010). Design Requirements for Ambient Display that Supports Sustainable Lifestyle. Proceedings of the DIS 2010 Conference, p. 103-111.
Keynotes, Talks, and More
Sustainability-related presentations by SAP User Experience team members (and some external contributors):
- Christine Ronnewinkel & Janaki Kumar, co-chairs of paper session at
DUXU 2011, Orlando, FL, USA: Sustainability: Future Roles, Responsibilities,
and Opportunities for the HCI Profession.
Session papers:- Future Centered Design: Designing for Sustainable Business (Janaki Kumar, Peter Graf)
- Managing a Green Giant: Sustainability Performance Management, a User Experience Perspective (Benjamin Tomsky, Angad Manco)
- What Sustainability Brings to the Research Table (Niyati Bedekar, Sally Lawler Kennedy)
- The Grid Intelligent Planning Framework: Planning Electric Utility Investments in a Time of Accelerating Change (Geoff Ryder, Fatimah Shahid, Sui Yan)
- User-Experience for Personal Sustainability Software: Determining Design Philosophy and Principles (Aaron Marcus, Jennifer Dumpert, Laurie Wigham, Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc.)
- Dan Rosenberg, keynote at UX 2010, Shanghai, China: Global Sustainability – where can HCI professionals effectively contribute? • Slides
- Jeff Zhu, presentation at UX 2010, Shanghai, China: Sustainable UCD • Slides
- Dan Rosenberg, invited talk at UPA 2010, Munich, Germany: Global Sustainability: Fit or Misfit for HCI?
- Dan Rosenberg, keynote at HCI International 2009, San Diego, CA, USA: The Industrialization of Sustainability: Future roles, responsibilities and opportunities for the HCI profession
Links
SAP, SAP UX
- Sustainability at SAP on sap.com (company Website)
- SAP sustainability map on SDN • SAP sustainability map on sap.com
- SAP's current sustainability report (2010) • 2009 • 2008
- Our View (Peter Graf, CSO at SAP)
- Janaki Kumar at LUNAR Podcast "Sustainability Design 2.0"
- DUXU 2011 session "Sustainability: Future Roles, Responsibilities, and Opportunities for the HCI Profession"
SAP Design Guild
- Supporting Groupware with Awareness Information (Annette Jann, 2002)
- Keywords and Definitions Around Collaboration (Ramona Winkler)
- Collaboration Glossary (Ramona Winkler & Gerd Waloszek)
- DIS 2010 – A UI Design Practitioner's Report (Gerd Waloszek)
MIT Media Lab: Tangible Media Group, Ambient Media
- Tangible Bits Project Website
- Abstract of Ishii's and Ullmer's original paper on tangile user interfaces • Full article (PDF)
Ambient Awareness
- Wikipedia: Ambient Awareness
- Ambient Awareness (project; University of Hamburg Applied Science, Germany)
- Ambient Awareness (project; Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
Others
- Nathan Shedroff (homepage)
- The Sustainable Workforce (School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University)
- Yvonne Rogers (persuasive design)
- Homepage (The Open University, UK)
- Pervasive Interaction Lab
- Change project • More information about the project • Tidy street project
- Clouds and lights project (see "Persuasive Ambient Displays"; video) • P. W. Schultz, J. M. Nolan, R. B. Cialdini, N. J. Goldstein, and V. Griskevicius. The constructive, destructive, and reconstructive power of social norms. Psychological Science, 18(5):429–434, 2007.
- Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A) • Aaron Marcus' presentation at Stanford University
- BBC: 'Carbon cost' of Google revealed
- Softpedia: The Carbon Cost of a Google Search
Wikipedia, YouTube
- Wikipedia: groupware (collaborative software), computer supported cooperative work (CSCW), computer supported collaboration (CSC), telecommuting, TelePresence, persuasion design
- YouTube: Persiflage of an audio conference by Dave Grady
