Today is World Usability Day 2008, and this year's theme is transportation. As part of the day's events, the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) has announced the Global Transport Challenge, which includes a little web-based carbon calculator.
It's an easy way for you to understand how you use transportation everyday and the ...
Position papers for the "Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability" workshop of Pervasive 2008 will soon be posted online (The event also has a Facebook page). Workshop organizer Marcus Foth, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation, recently announced the selections, among them:
"Using persuasive technology to encourage sustainable behavior", from ...
“Our first green products must be ourselves.”
In the summer of 02007, Valarie Casey, current head of software/digital experiences at IDEO, wrote an article in frog design’s bi-monthly newsletter DesignMind called the Designer’s Dilemma. She wrote,
Our addiction to sweeping change has hobbled us from seeing the most obvious opportunities for ...