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Eli Blevis serves on the faculty in the Human-Computer Interaction Design program of the School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Blevis' primary area of research, and the one for which he is best known, is sustainable interaction design. This area of research and Dr. Blevis' core expertise are situated within the confluence of human computer interaction as it owes to the computing and cognitive sciences, and design as it owes to the reflection of design criticism and the practice of critical design. Dr. Blevis has published more than 40 articles and papers and has given several invited colloquia internationally on sustainable interaction design and the larger context of notions of design.

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I am the contributing editor for the forum sustainably ours of ACM interactions magazine. Please see the ACM interactions web site or the ACM digital library.

Just posted: Syllabus for I590 Foundations of HCI/d Fall 2008: I590 2008 Syllabus

Just added—a new photo essay titled lawn & anti-lawn.

David Roedl and Will Odom have won the Interface Design section of the prestigious Imagine Cup Competition in Paris. See the story here or David & Will's team page on the Imagine Cup site, itself. David and Will are key members of the Sustainable Interaction Design Research Group (SIDRG).

Please visit the design philosophy politics e-zine, founded and edited by Team D/E/S and hosted by the HCI/d group here at Indiana University at Bloomington.

An article Changing energy use through design contributed by James Pierce and David Roedl to my ACM interactions Sustainably Ours forum was selected as the cover story.

I contributed to what I believe will be an important article on computing's potentials for sustainable and unsustainable practices. Jen Mankoff is the primary author: Mankoff, J., Kravets, R., & Blevis, E. (2008, August). Some computer issues in creating a sustainable world. Computer. Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press. Advance Copy PDF.

Kristin Hanks, Will Odom, David Roedl, and I contributed and presented a long archival paper at CHI'08 called Sustainable millennials: attitudes towards sustainability and the material effects of interactive technologies. See a video of the presentation here. The paper was reported in the Italian Press here.

Erik Stolterman presented a paper he and I wrote together at the 2008 Design Research Society conference in Sheffield UK called The Confluence of Interaction Design and Design: from Disciplinary to Transdisciplinary Perspectives.