Sustainable Interaction Design
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Introduction
by HsuanCheng Lin
In human society, under a high level of economic growth, the natural environment has been damaged. Including waste pollution, the greenhouse effect and ozone damaged caused by global warming, and the disappearance of rain forests and deserts the expansion of energy consumption caused by the sharp increase in resource depletion crisis. Humans began to realize the ecological imbalance has serious consequences for the development and stability of human civilization, and even the survival of all life on earth.
Scholars began to think that we should take a more positive attitude towards environmental protection and sustainable development. In the book, From Cradle to Cradle, Braungart and Mcdonough mention that people always embrace on the environment, earth, nature profound feelings of guilt with eco-ism. Human and industrial pollution of the earth. Nature is the most perfect, but the emergence of human pollution of nature, which not correct; they put forward a concept of the book: anti unreserved affirmation of nature, it should be affirmed positively humanity itself, to a more proactive approach to faced with environmental problems.
On the other hand, since the development of computer technology, intelligent space applications intended to bring the power of science and technology that provide human a easier, convenient and comfortable living environment. With the traditional concepts, the interactive media development of technology seems to environmental protection, sustainability and other issues contrary. Computer industry is looking for smaller size, faster computing power. There are always having smaller, faster, and cheaper products that come out, and the user will constantly eliminate old products replaced with newer technology products. By the continuous replacement and updating, although it create the promotion of science and technology development, economic growth, and provides a convenient life, it also caused the resource consumption and environmental burden.
It looks like that the computer technology both in software or hardware applications has consumed the environmental resources, but the computer technology should be combined with the concept of sustainable smart living space in order to achieve sustainable development goals.
Refrerence
Eli Blevis, Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, April 28-May 03, 2007, San Jose, California, USA
Tiffany Grace Holmes, Eco-visualization: combining art and technology to reduce energy consumption, Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition, June 13-15, 2007, Washington, DC, USA
