ecoeda: Recycling e-waste during electronics design

J Lu, B Desta, KD Wu, R Nith, JE Passananti… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Unmaking electronic waste

J Lu, P Lopes - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of new technologies has led to a proliferation of unwanted electronic
devices. E-waste is the largest-growing consumer waste-stream worldwide, but also an …

Carefully Unmaking the “Marginalized User:” A Diffractive Analysis of a Gay Online Community

J Taylor, WH Deng, K Holstein, S Fox… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
HCI scholars are increasingly engaging in research about “marginalized groups,” such as
LGBTQ+ people. While normative habitual readings of marginalized people in HCI often …

Designing with What Remains

I Mandel, W Ju - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Goods are designed, produced, and eventually purchased by consumers who will typically
use them as their marketing and branding suggests. What happens when, instead, existing …

Untangling Cables: A Case Study of the Life & Afterlife of Digital Devices in Academic Research

R Muntean, K Hennessy, C Mills, AN Antle - Proceedings of the 2024 …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As researchers and academics, we investigate our bad habitus—our everyday practices
around technologies for research that reinforce dynamics of extraction, consumption, and …

Unmake to Remake: Materiality-Driven Rapid Prototyping

H Deshpande, H Takahashi, J Kim - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Within the domain of fabrication, the recent strides in Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
have sparked growing interest in its sustainability. In this work, we analyze the contemporary …

Empowering End-Users Toward Roles in Sustainable Computing

J Lu - Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Technology has become increasingly embedded throughout our lives and rapid
technological innovation promises even more uses of future technologies. In fact, much of …

THE AESTHETICS OF SUSTAINABILITY: INCORPORATING PLASTIC RECYCLING INTO ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION

Y Sidian, R Ghazali, H Jinyue… - … JOURNAL OF MODERN …, 2024 - gaexcellence.com
This study investigates the integration of environmental conservation principles in university
craft and artistry design courses, focusing on the use of recycled plastic bottles. It examines …

Sustainable Unmaking: Designing for Biodegradation, Decay, and Disassembly

KW Song, F Bell, H Deshpande, I Mandel… - Extended Abstracts of …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Unmaking is a counterpart to making and creating new things that has emerged as a
concept of interest in diverse parts of the HCI community. Unmaking has been posed as an …