The amount of e-waste generated by discarding devices is enormous but options for
recycling remain limited. However, inside a discarded device (from consumer devices to …

Within the past few years, the field of HCI has increasingly addressed the issue of
environmental sustainability, primarily identifying the challenges and developing an agenda …

Reducing the environmental footprint of electronics and computing devices requires new
tools that empower designers to make informed decisions about sustainability during the …

Owners of electronic devices typically decide whether or when they become e-waste or are
still reusable. For a device in a commons model, where devices are collectively owned and …

This paper explores the problem of designing enclosures (or physical cases) that are
needed for prototyping electronic devices. We present a novel interface that uses electronic …

Interactive devices and the services they support are reliant on the cloud and the digital
infrastructure supporting it. The environmental impacts of this infrastructure are substantial …

We describe our first efforts to develop a set of off-the-shelf hardware components that
ordinary people could connect to build a simple but useful class of embedded systems. The …

Software and IT usage are continuously growing to keep our society active and manage our
individual lives. But as they grow, their energy demand is exploding. By 2030, data centers …

Developers spend a significant portion of their time searching for solutions and methods
online. While numerous tools have been developed to support this exploratory process, in …

We argue that pervasive computing offers not only tremendous opportunities and exciting
research challenges but also possible negative environmental impacts, particularly in terms …