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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Limits and sustainable interaction design: Obsolescence in a future of collapse and resource scarcity
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Johannes Christian Remy
  • Elaine May Huang
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title First Monday
Publisher University of Illinois at Chicago
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1396-0458
Volume 20
Number 8
Page Range 6122
Date 2015
Abstract Text Electronic waste, caused by the advancements of technology and its rapidly increasing obsolescence, represents a major threat to environmental sustainability. Research in sustainable HCI has proposed a variety of solutions to tackle this issue, but has yet to create a major impact in product design. While currently industry’s goals are opposed to research’s concepts of addressing obsolescence, a future of collapse and resource scarcity requires a revisit of those contributions: changes in society at large, such as a decrease of resource availability, different needs, requirements, and desires of the consumer, but also new directions of industry and marketing might enable researchers to bring their old concepts into practice. We take a look at a variety of obsolescence-related research in sustainable HCI and foreshadow its potential for such a future of collapse and resource scarcity.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.5210/fm.v20i8.6122
Other Identification Number merlin-id:12293
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