Sustainability

For Immediate Release:

Contact:
Molly Z. Mackinlay
Stanford University
+1 425 224 3111 (cell)
publicity@chi2013.acm.org

MAKING TECHNOLOGY MORE SUSTAINABLE AT ACM COMPUTER-HUMAN INTERACTION (CHI 2013) CONFERENCE

Paris, France April 27-May 2 - The ACM Computer-Human Interaction Conference features innovative research to make technology more accessible for a variety of populations.  CHI 2013 http://chi2013.acm.org/  runs from April 27-May 2, at Le Palais de Congrès de Paris.  Presenters include researchers from IBM Research Center, who developed an electricity portal to decrease electricity consumption through visual feedback in The Dubuque Electricity Portal: Evaluation of a City-Scale Residential Electricity Consumption Feedback System. Cutting electricity consumption saves families money while limiting significant environmental consequences due to energy production and use.

Additional CHI 2013 sessions addressing sustainability include:

At Home with Agents: Exploring Attitudes Towards Future Smart Energy Infrastructures, presented by researchers from the University of Nottingham, UK. This paper postulates design principles to address socio-economic issues surrounding how consumers relate to future smart energy.

Using Crowdsourcing to Support Pro-Environmental Community Activism, presented by researchers from the University of Bristol, UK, investigates motivational techniques to support pro-environmental community activism.

About CHI 2013

Featuring over 900 works, the CHI conference is the premier worldwide forum for the exchange of information on all aspects of human-computer interaction. CHI 2013 addresses research on all aspects of human-computer interaction (HCI), case studies of interactive system designs, proof-of-concept innovative systems, and presentations on the challenges and innovations in the field.  In addition to a long-standing focus on professionals in design, engineering, management, and user experience; this year’s conference has made special efforts to serve communities in: Child-Computer Interaction, Digital Arts, Games & Entertainment, Health, Sustainability, and HCI4D. For complete information about this year’s conference, consult the Advance Program. More than 3000 professionals from over 40 countries are expected at this year’s conference, which marks 31 years of research, innovation and development of the Computer-Human Interaction community.

About SIGCHI

CHI 2013 is sponsored by ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI). SIGCHI  includes research, design, development, and evaluation efforts for interactive computer systems, and focuses on how people communicate and interact with a broadly-defined range of computer systems. SIGCHI serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among computer scientists, human factors scientists, psychologists, social scientists, designers, educators, and software engineers involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interactive computing systems.

About ACM

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery (www.acm.org), is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, uniting computing educators, researchers and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources and address the field’s challenges. ACM strengthens the computing profession’s collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking.