Ubiquitous Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values

This workshop will explore the ways in which research within the Ubicomp community intersects with values and practices linked to environmental sustainability. Growing concern about resource depletion, global warming, and environmental degradation have led increasing numbers of people to reconsider their actions and the impact they have on the planet. This upswing in public interest in making positive change for the environment has substantial implications for how the Ubicomp community frames and executes the design of technologies in realms as diverse as energy conservation, healthcare, home systems monitoring and automation, environmental monitoring, community planning, and social networking. The goals of the workshop are to gain an understanding of emerging practices in which technologies align with environmental values, and to distill a set of challenges for the Ubicomp community that are synchronous with those developments.