2011 Lectures

Each week is listed with lecture title, slides (if available) and date. Things in italics are still tentative.

Successful environmental action requires cross disciplinary work, and in that vein we have several guest lectures planned. These are currently tentative.

January 14

• Assignment #0: Survey
• Speed dating
• [handout: get someone to take a green action (#1)]
• Introduction to us
• Theory: What is Environmental Footprint/Environmental Impact? Reading: The textbook [Chapters 1 & 2] (on blackboard);
• Theory: Human Behavior and the Environment. Reading: Using peer pressure as a tool to promote greener choices ; Design Principles for Carbon Emissions Reduction Programs; The design of Eco-Feedback Technology
• OPTIONAL READINGS: Psychology and global climate change (executive report) ;

January 21

• Practice: The StepGreen Website and the StepGreen API. Readings: What is XML?; get an account and try it out; the API docs
• Introduction to Information Visualization. Readings: Tufte (available on blackboard). Resources: http://infosthetics.com/ and ManyEyes
• Theory: Introduction to Eco Art. Readings: A Rough Guide to Environmental Art (available on Blackboard). Optional: Going green with public art policy; Coutere: Art For Earth’s Sake (available on Blackboard).

January 28

• Critique of Assignment #1 [3 hours; timed]
• Handout of Assignment #2: Create a visualization

February 4th [BRING YOUR LAPTOP]

• [Required] Theory: Citizen Science by Eric Paulos (on Blackboard)
• [Optional] Street Science by Jason Corburn (on Blackboard)
• Practice: Web 2.0 and Mashups. [About Mashups; How to make them; ]
• Make a mashup!!!

February 11th

• Critique of Assignment #2 [3 hours; timed]
• Handout of Assignment #3: Create a mashup

February 18th

• Theory: Art, HCI & Sustainability: Dourish, P. DIS 2010. HCI and Environmental Sustainability: The Politics of Design and the Design of Politics; DiSalvo: Nourishing the ground for sustainable HCI: considerations from ecologically engaged art (you need to be on campus to download this).
• Optional: Blevis, E, 'Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse', Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems 2007, pp. 503-512.
• Guest lecture: LCA
• [journal practice]
• [assignment 4]

February 25th

• Critique of Assignment #3 [3 hours; timed]
• Handout of Assignment #4: Create something de-eco-structive

March 4th: Mid semester break

• have selected your group for final project by today.
  • initial abstract/proposal for final project due today

March 11th: Still mid semester break

March 18th: Canceled because of David Kelley Lecture

• Final project proposal completed

March 25th

• Critique of Assignment #4 [3 hours; timed]

April 1st

• Environmental Activism [1+ hours] Readings available on blackboard.
  • [read ELF thesis chapter 1 & final chapter (optional)]
  • [read about Julia Butterfly Hill in the Washington Post and Time magazine]
• Individual Meetings with groups [15 minutes each]
• Final project: work description due w/ "competitive analysis"

April 8th

• One on one meetings
• Bob Bingham Guest Lecture

April 15th

• One on one meetings [no class due to carnival]

April 22nd

• One on one meetings

April 29th