4 papers
Humour as Resistance: Visceralizing the Environmental and Social Impact of AI through Humour-based Creative Practices
Han Qiao, Rowan O. A. Munson, Nadia Mariyan Smith +2
The growth of AI does not come without cost. While we hear about the economic costs, the environmental and social costs are often obfuscated by mainstream narratives, and even when…
Relational Aesthesis in Permacomputing Practice: Building a Solar Powered Website from Reclaimed Materials
Nadia Mariyan Smith, Nils Bonfils, Han Qiao +1
Permacomputing is a nascent concept and community of practice concerned with developing alternative computing systems grounded in principles of resilience, reuse, sufficiency, and…
Limits at a Distance: Design Directions to Address Psychological Distance in Policy Decisions Affecting Planetary Boundaries
Eshta Bhardwaj, Han Qiao, Christoph Becker
Policy decisions relevant to the environment rely on tools like dashboards, risk models, and prediction models to provide information and data visualizations that enable decision-m…
"Near Data" and "Far Data" for Urban Sustainability: How Do Community Advocates Envision Data Intermediaries?
Han Qiao, Siyi Wu, Christoph Becker
In the densifying data ecosystem of today's cities, data intermediaries are crucial stakeholders in facilitating data access and use. Community advocates live in these sites of soc…