The theme for the 2008 Informatics Capstone Experience is environmental sustainability. With community clients and stakeholders, students will identify information problems and develop solutions. We expect that projects will address important topics including (but not limited to):

  1. Domestic energy use;
  2. Office/workplace environmental impacts;
  3. Neighborhood environmental health.

Students will apply a variety of research methods and technologies in their projects. Projects are defined in the Autumn quarter and completed in the Winter quarter. Students give public presentations of their work in the Spring 2008.

a sea of '1000 mobiles' by Gaetan Lee, licensed through the Creative Commons link to Creative Commons If you would like to be a client for a student project, please contact:

David Hendry
Assistant Professor
The Information School
dhendry@u.washington.edu

 

To prepare for the capstone experience, students are reading the following papers
(UW Net ID required for access):

  1. Blevis, E. (2007). Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 503-512). New York, NY: ACM Press.

  2. Friedman, T. L. (2007 April 15). The power of green. The New York Times Magazine, 40-51, 67, 71-72.

  3. Goodland, R. (1995). The concept of environmental sustainability. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 26, 1-14.

 

Migrant child from Hunan province, China, sits atop one of the countless piles of unrecyclable computer waste imported from around the world. Migrant child from Hunan province sits atop one of countless piles of unrecyclable computer waste imported from around the world. Guiyu, China. December 2001. © Basel Action Network

 

 

 

 

 

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