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How Viable are Energy Savings in Smart Homes? A Call to Embrace Rebound Effects in Sustainable HCI
Christina Bremer, Harshit Gujral, Michelle Lin +3
As part of global climate action, digital technologies are seen as a key enabler of energy efficiency savings. A popular application domain for this work is smart homes. There is a…
Beyond Transactional Democracy: A Study of Civic Tech in Canada
Curtis W McCord, Christoph Becker
Technologies are increasingly enrolled in projects to involve civilians in the work of policy-making, often under the label of 'civic technology'. But conventional forms of partici…
Beware the Normative Fallacy
Christoph Becker
Behavioral research can provide important insights for SE practices. But in performing it, many studies of SE are committing a normative fallacy - they misappropriate normative and…
Critical Requirements Engineering in Practice
Leticia Duboc, Curtis McCord, Christoph Becker +1
The design of software systems inevitably enacts normative boundaries around the site of intervention. These boundaries are, in part, a reflection of the values, ethics, power, and…
Temporal Discounting in Software Engineering: A Replication Study
Fabian Fagerholm, Christoph Becker, Alexander Chatzigeorgiou +5
Background: Many decisions made in Software Engineering practices are intertemporal choices: trade-offs in time between closer options with potential short-term benefit and future…
Sidewalk and Toronto: Critical Systems Heuristics and the Smart City
Curtis McCord, Christoph Becker
`Smart cities', urban development projects that design computational systems and sensory technology to monitor activity and regulate energy consumption and resource distribution, a…