Invitation to a Symposium*
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*Energy Sustainability: Ubiquitous Technologies, Social Practices, and
Cultures of Participation*
University of Siegen und Fraunhofer FIT
University of Siegen, P-Gebaeude
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Among the speakers:
- Gero Bieser, SAP-Waldorf
- Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado;
- Gunnar Stevens, University of Siegen.
Themes and Objectives for the Symposium
Energy sustainability has become a highly relevant social requirement,
both for work places and households. There is a growing body of
knowledge focused on understanding consumer's habits and supporting them
in reducing their domestic carbon footprint. In the workplace, we can
identify two so far rather distinct approaches (1) research that focuses
on optimizing formalized production processes and investing into energy
efficient equipment (2) research which looks at the workers' practices
in energy usage and support their conservation practices in a bottom-up
manner. We anticipate that these approaches will converge.
An important underlying theme is the changing perception of energy
consumption. Traditionally consumption was understood to happen mainly
passively at the end of a centralized network of producers. By contrary,
energy sustainability requires active participation of the consumers
interacting with a network of decentralized producers (smart grid). The
consumer gains an active role (presuming), be it by developing more
efficient energy consumption practices, or even by becoming a local
energy producer. In enabling the prosumer and coordinating between
energy production and consumption, appropriately design IT plays a major
role.
The rise in /social computing/ (based on social production and mass
collaboration) has facilitated a shift from /consumer cultures/
(specialized in producing finished goods to be consumed passively) to
/cultures of participation/ (in which all people are provided with the
means to participate actively in personally meaningful problems). These
developments represent unique and fundamental opportunities and
challenges for rethinking and reinventing the future of Human Computer
Interaction (HCI).
Innovative technological developments are /necessary/ for cultures of
participation, but they are /not sufficient/. The deep and enduring
changes are not just technological, but social and cultural as well, so
socio-technical systems are necessary. Cultures of participation are not
dictated by technology---they are the result of incremental shifts in
human behavior and social organizations, including design, adoption,
appropriation, and adaptation of technologies to the needs of the
participants.
The symposium will be discussion-oriented and all participants are
encouraged to be active contributors. One objective of the symposium
will be to identify some */grand challenges/* at the intersection of
Energy Sustainability and Human Computer Interaction.
/Background:/The University of Siegen has established the first master
program in Human Computer Interaction at a German university in last
fall. The program has an enrollment of some 20 students. More
information about the Master program can be found
at:http://hci.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de/index.php?id=de&sid=startseite
<http://hci.wineme.fb5.uni-siegen.de/index.php?id=de&sid=startseite>
*Morning Session*
9:00 -- 9:30 Welcome and Brief Introduction by all Participants
9:30 -- 10:00 Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder)
"Social-Computational Systems and Energy Sustainability"
10:00 -- 10:30Gero Bieser (SAP, Walldorf) "Energy Sustainability:
Visions and challenges from an Industry Point of View"
10:30 -- 11:00Break
11:00 -- 11:30 Gunnar Stevens und Volker Wulf (University of Siegen):
"Sustainable Energy Practices --- Understanding the Role of the Active
Consumer"
11:30 -- 12:30 Markus Duscha (ifeu, Heidelberg): "At the Consumption
Side of Smart Grids"
*12:30 -- 13:30Lunch*
*Afternoon Session:*
13:30 -- 15:00Round Table Discussion 1: Prosuming and Cultures of
Participation
15:00 -- 15:30 Break
15:30 -- 17:00 Round Table Discussion 2: Elements of a New Discourse on
the Future of Human-Centred Computing: changing human behavior
and/versus user-centered design, control, ownership, reciprocity,
motivation, privacy
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Anmeldung: Kathrin Zimmermann, Institut fuer Medienforschung der
Universitaet Siegen,
Email: [log in to unmask]
Anfahrt:
http://www.uni-siegen.de/start/die_universitaet/ueber_uns/wegweiser/
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Prof. Dr. Volker Wulf
Institute for Information Systems, University of Siegen
Hölderlinstr. 3, 57068 Siegen, Germany
Phone: +49-271-740-2910, Email:[log in to unmask]; and:
Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FhG-FIT)
Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany
Phone: +49-2241-142993; Fax: +49-2241-142146
Email:[log in to unmask]
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