In recent years, many HCI designers have begun pursuing research agendas that address
large scale social issues. These systemic or" wicked" problems present challenges for …

More than a decade into Sustainable HCI (SHCI) research, the community is still struggling
to converge on a shared understanding of sustainability and HCI's role in addressing it. We …

Civic technology, or civic tech, encompasses a rich body of work, inside and outside HCI,
around how we shape technology for, and in turn how technology shapes, how we govern …

After its first prominent application as part of the digital currency Bitcoin, blockchain
technology is gaining in popularity. It comprises a chain of blocks (the ledger) that provides a …

Throughout the world, organizations empower youth to participate in civic engagement to
impact social change, and adult-youth collaborations are instrumental to the success of such …

This paper challenges the sustainable HCI community to move away from a focus on
demand and instead address climate change as a supply problem. We identify a new route …

This monograph lays out a discussion framework for understanding the role of human–
computer interaction (HCI) in public policymaking. We take an international view, discussing …

Sustainable HCI grapples with how to use technology design to make social change. This is
made difficult by recurring dilemmas about how to truly make change, like how to increase …

HCI research often involves intervening in the economic lives of people, but researchers
only rarely give explicit consideration to what actually constitutes prosociality in the …

Domestic food wastage is a growing problem for the environment and food security. Some
causes of domestic food wastes are attributed to a consumer's behaviours during food …