2010 Lectures

Each week is listed with lecture title, slides (if available) and date (which links to a page containing the details on the assigned readings and another link to the slides).

Lectures will be split into two parts: 1.5 hours will cover high level material with assigned readings. 1.5 hours will be tutorial or critique. Successful environmental action requires cross disciplinary work, and in that vein we have several guest lectures planned. Below is a list of confirmed guest lecturers. Titles are currently tentative.

January 15

Theory: What is Environmental Footprint/Environmental Impact? Reading: The textbook [Chapters 1 & 2]
Theory: Persuasion in Environmental Psychology. Reading: One size does not fit all: Applying the Transtheoretical Model to Energy Feedback Technology Design, Using Peer Pressure as a Tool to Promote Greener Choices, Abrahamse [NOTE: if you have trouble downloading this, you need to be signed into the account that gives you access to our google group, which is where I put the file, so it's not public]
Assignment: Get someone to take a green action.

January 22

Theory: Captology -- using computers to persuade. Readings: Dourish, P. 2009. Print this Paper, Kill a Tree: Environmental Sustainability as a Research Topic for HCI. LUCI-2009-004, UC Irvine; Excerpts from "Persuasive Technology" by Fogg. [Introduction] [Chapter 1] [Chapter 9 -- Ethics] [Optional: Chapter 8 -- mobile devices]
Practice: The StepGreen Website and the StepGreen API. Reading: Weblogs & Social Media submission; get an account and try it out; the API docs; What is XML?
Assignment: Create a visualization of some environmental data

January 29

Practice: Direct vs. Indirect Impact and Life Cycle Analysis. (Christine Costello) [EPA Intro to LCA] Chapters 1 & 2 and the Glossary. Also read the abstracts of [LCA of Water bottles] and [Food miles]
Practice: Web 2.0 and Mashups. (Aditya Sharma) [About Mashups; How to make them; ] [Screencasts one two three four five six]
Practice: Group Work (Juliet LaDieu) [reading 1] [reading 2]
Assignment: Create a simple mashup of something environmental
Theory: Guest lecture by Scott Matthews, Civil and Environmental Engineering. Tentative topic: The Economics of Environmental Actions [Reading: Weber; Blackhurst]
Practice: Information Visualization [Reading: Tufte; Ware Ch. 9; optional: Ware Ch. 1 ]
Theory: Guest lecture by Mark Gross, Architecture. Tentative topic: Instrumenting the Built Environment. No Readings
Practice: Sensors and Environmental Action (Sid Vowles, Chanhong Min, Mohit Singh) [Sensors for environmental sensing]

February 19

Theory: Melissa Cicozi. [Reading].
Practice: Sustainable Art/Design (Elise Walton)

February 26

Theory: Bob Bingham, Art. Tentative topic: Environmental art [Reading: Director's Forward and Introduction plus (optionally) one other part that interests you]
- Practice: Green IT (Iliana Radneva, Jordan Sinclair, Chad Ziccardi) [Reading: Computer Science Issues in Sustainability ; UbiGreen ] [Optional: http://features.techworld.com/latest/?cid=27; Case Study; Eco Raft]

March 1-4 Final presentations will be in this period (TBD)

February 5

February 12