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The publications below are each assigned to one and only one of the following thematic categories: highlights, new, sustainable interaction design, design theory, studio culture & learning, other, and invited presentations. Highlighted entries denote publications with double blind peer review in a significantly competitive venue or—in rare cases—similarly significant and rigorous editorial or competitive review.

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highlights ()

Blevis, E. and Coleman Morse, S. (2009). SUSTAINABLY OURS Food, dude. interactions 16, 2 (Mar. 2009), 58-62. Download PDF (15Mg) or interactions online or ACM digital library

Hanks, K., Odom, W., Roedl, D., and Blevis, E. (2008). Sustainable millennials: attitudes towards sustainability and the material effects of interactive technologies. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 333-342. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Blevis, E. (2007, Best Paper Award). Sustainable interaction design: invention & disposal, renewal & reuse. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, California, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM Press, New York, NY, 503-512. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Blevis, E. (2006, Editor reviewed). Advancing Sustainable Interaction Design: Two Perspectives on Material Effects. Design Philosophy Papers. 2006 #4. Team D/E/S, Queensland, AU. ISSN 1448-7136 (25 pages). Download PDF or Design Philosophy Papers Journal Online Please subscribe to this journal! The print copy is now available: Design Philosophy Papers in Print.

new ()

2009

Blevis, E. (2009). SUSTAINBLY OURS Mellow velo. interactions 16, 1 (Jan. 2009), 48-51. Download PDF or interactions online or ACM digital library

Huang, E.M., Blevis, E., Mankoff, J., Nathan, L., & Tomlinson, B. (2009, April). WORKSHOP: Defining the Role of HCI in the Challenges of Sustainability. In Extended Abstracts of the Twenty-Seventh Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA, USA, April 04-09, 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY.

Odom, W., Pierce, J., Stolterman, E., and Blevis, E. (2009, April). Understanding Why We Preserve Some Things and Discard Others in the Context of Interaction Design. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Boston, MA. 2009). CHI '09. ACM, New York, NY. Download Advance Copy PDF

2008

Blevis, E. & Stolterman, E. (2008). The Confluence of Interaction Design and Design: from Disciplinary to Transdisciplinary Perspectives. In Proc. 2008 Design Research Society Conference. Sheffield, UK: Design Research Society. 344/1-12. Download PDF

Blevis, E. (2008). Sustainability implications of organic user interface technologies: an inky problem. Communications of the ACM 51, 6 (Jun. 2008), 56-57. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Blevis, E. and Blevis, S. (2008). SUSTAINABLY OURS Images of sustainable interactions: seeing with the lens of sustainability. interactions 15, 3 (May. 2008), 27-29. Download PDF (4.67Mg) or interactions online or ACM digital library

Blevis, E. (2008). Deigners take responsibility. Sidebar (p.64) for:
Arieff, A. and Casey, V. 2008. (P)REVIEW Merging design, business, and sustainability: the designers accord. interactions 15, 3 (May. 2008), 61-66. interactions online or ACM digital library

Blevis, E. (2008). SUSTAINABLY OURS Two digital divides and four perspectives. interactions 15, 1 (Jan. 2008), 61-66. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Blevis, E., Lim, Y.K., Stolterman, E., & Makice, K. (2008). The Iterative Design of a Virtual Design Studio. Techtrends: A Journal of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Springer US. Volume 52, Number 1. 74-83. Download PDF (3.0Mg) or Springer Link

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.

Nathan, L. P., Blevis, E., Friedman, B., Hasbrouck, J., and Sengers, P. 2008. Beyond the hype: sustainability & HCI. In CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 2273-2276. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Odom, W., Blevis, E., and Stolterman, E. (2008). SUSTAINABLY OURS Personal inventories in the context of sustainability and interaction design. interactions 15, 5 (Sep. 2008), 16-20. Download PDF (10 Mg) or ACM digital library

Pierce, J., Odom, W., & Blevis, E. (2008, December). Energy Aware Dwelling: A Critical Survey of Interaction Design for Eco-Visualizations. In Proceedings of OZCHI '08. The annual conference for the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group (CHISIG) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA). Download Advance Copy PDF

sustainable interaction design ()

Blevis, E., Makice, K., Odom, W., Roedl, D., Beck, C., Blevis, S., and Ashok, A. (2007). Luxury & new luxury, quality & equality. In Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and interfaces (Helsinki, Finland, August 22 - 25, 2007). DPPI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 296-311. Download PDF or ACM digtial library

Blevis, E. & Stolterman, E. (2007). Ensoulment and Sustainable Interaction Design. In Proceedings of International Association of Design Research Societies Conference IASDR 2007. Hong Kong, China: HKPT. Download PDF

Mankoff, J. C., Blevis, E., Borning, A., Friedman, B., Fussell, S. R., Hasbrouck, J., Woodruff, A., and Sengers, P. (2007). Environmental sustainability and interaction. In CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 2121-2124. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Blevis, E. (2007). Living Room Totem of the Unsustainable. Design Philosophy Politics e-zine. Design Philosophy Politics online

Blevis, E. (2007). Object Obituary: Chairs. Ambidextrous Magazine. Issue 8. Stanford, CA: Stanford Design School. Download PDF or Issue Preview

Hanks, K., Odom, W., Roedl, D., Blevis, E. (2007, Abstract). Sustainable Millennials: Exploring the Material Effects of Information Technologies for a Generation of Excessive Consumption and Exceptional Potential. Sustainable Transformations: Technology and Its Environments: 31st Annual Humanities and Technology Conference. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Terre Haute, IN.

Blevis, E., Lim, Y.K., Roedl, D., & Stolterman, E. (2007). Using Design Critique as Research to link Sustainability and Interactive Technologies. In D. Schuler (Ed.): Online Communities and Social Computing, HCII 2007, LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 4564, pp. 22-31. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Download PDF or LNCS link

Reed, C., Wang, H.W., & Blevis, E. (2005). Recognizing Individual Needs and Desires in the Case of Designing an Inventory of Humanity-Centered, Sustainability-Directed Concepts for Time and Travel. DPPI 2005 Designing Pleasurable Product Interfaces. Eindhoven, The Netherlands. (32 pages) Download PDF

design theory ()

Lim, Y.K., Blevis, E., Stolterman, E. (2007). Grand Challenges in Design Research for Human-Centered Design Informatics. In D. Schuler (Ed.): Online Communities and Social Computing, HCII 2007, LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 4564, pp. 106-115. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. Download PDF or LNCS link

Blevis, E., Lim, Y.K., & Stolterman, E. (2006). Regarding Software as a Material of Design. In Proceedings of Wonderground 2006 Lisbon, Portugal: Design Research Society. (18 pages, Plenary). Download PDF or DRS 2006 Proceedings Site PDF

Notess, M., & Blevis, E. (2004). Comparing Human-Centered Design Methods from Different Disciplines: Contextual Design and PRInCiPleS. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Futureground 2004 Conference. Melbourne, Australia: Design Research Society. Download PDF

design studio culture & learning ()

Blevis, E., Lim, Y., Stolterman, E., Wolf, T. V., and Sato, K. (2007). Supporting design studio culture in HCI. In CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (San Jose, CA, USA, April 28 - May 03, 2007). CHI '07. ACM, New York, NY, 2821-2824. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Andreas Lund, Palmyre Pierroux, Ingvill Rasmussen, Ole Smørdal, Ingeborg Krange, & Eli Blevis. (2007). Pre-Conference Event for CSCL 2007: Emerging Issues in Wiki Research: Knowledge Advancement and Design. CSCL 2007. Download PDF

Blevis, E., Makice, K., Lim, Y.K., & Stolterman, E. (2006). Design Wiki Workshop. Perform.media Conference. Bloomington IN: Perform.media.

Blevis, E., Lim, Y., Ozakca, M., and Aneja, S. 2005. Designing interactivity for the specific context of designerly collaborations. In CHI '05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Portland, OR, USA, April 02 - 07, 2005). CHI '05. ACM, New York, NY, 1216-1219. NOTE: This paper was accepted in the double-blind review competition for short papers, but incorrectly appears in the proceedings as a poster. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Blevis, E., Lim, Y. K., & Ozakca, M. (2005). The Design Exchange: A Collaborative Online Community for Designers based on Shared Construction of Design Knowledge. 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Online Communities and Social Computing, Las Vegas, NV. Download PDF

Blevis, E., & Siegel M. (2005). The Explanation for Design Explanations. 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Design Education and Research: Current and Future Trends, Las Vegas, NV. Download PDF

Wang, H. and Blevis, E. 2004. Concepts that support collocated collaborative work inspired by the specific context of industrial designers. In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 06 - 10, 2004). CSCW '04. ACM, New York, NY, 546-549. Download PDF or ACM digital library

Rogers, Y., Hazlewood, W., Blevis, E., and Lim, Y. (2004). Finger talk: collaborative decision-making using talk and fingertip interaction around a tabletop display. In CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Vienna, Austria, April 24 - 29, 2004). CHI '04. ACM, New York, NY, 1271-1274. Download PDF or ACM digital library

other ()

Jakobsson, M., Tsow, A., Shah, A., Blevis, E., & Lim, Y.K. (2007). Workshop Paper: What Instills Trust? A Qualitative Study of Phishing. Usable Security, USEC'07. (6 pages).

Bardzell, J., Blevis, E., & Lim, Y.K. (2006, Invited). Human Centered Design Considerations. In Jakobsson, M. & Myers, S. (Eds.) Phishing and Counter-measures: Understanding the increasing problem of electronic identity theft. Wiley. (20 pages)

Bardzell, J., Blevis, E., & Lim, Y.K. (2006, Invited). Behavioral Studies. In Jakobsson, M. & Myers, S. (Eds.) Phishing and Counter-measures: Understanding the increasing problem of electronic identity theft. Wiley. (6 pages)

Siegel, M. & Blevis, E. (2005). HCI Design Graduate Program at the School of Informatics, Indiana University. In Foley, J., Beaudouin-Lafon, M., Grudin, J., Hudson, S., Hollan, J., Olson, J., & Verplank, B. Workshop on Graduate Education in Human-Computer Interaction. ACM CHI 2005 conference on Human factors and computing systems, Portland, OR. (4 pages) workshop site

Blevis, E. (2004). What Design Is Matters Less Than What Designs Are: Explanations for HCI and Design, a Case Story. In Zimmerman, J., Evenson, S., Baumann, K., & Purgathofer, P. Workshop on the relationship between design and HCI. ACM CHI 2004 conference on Human factors and computing systems, Vienna, Austria. ACM Press. (4 pages)

Blevis, E., Y. Rogers, M. Siegel, W. Hazlewood, A. Stephano (2004). Integrating HCI and Design: HCI/d at IUB, a Design Education Case Story. In Zimmerman, J., Evenson, S., Baumann, K., & Purgathofer, P. Workshop on the relationship between design and HCI. ACM CHI 2004 conference on Human factors and computing systems, Vienna, Austria. (4 pages)

Blevis, E., & Bardzell, J. (2004). Position Statement: Design Experimentation. SDS/2K4 Sydney Design Symposium. Sydney AU. (8 pages).

Melican, J., & Blevis, E. (1997). Building Context-Sensitivity through Behavioral Prototyping: The Development of an Internet-Based Mentoring Program for 5th-12th Grade Students. Proceedings of WebNet 97 - World Conference of the WWW, Internet & Intranet. Charlottesville, VA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Melican, J., Poggenpohl, S., Venesky, R., Blevis, E., Cargile, A., & Friedman, A. (1996). Alphabet Highway: Literacy in a Digital Context. Information Design Journal 8/3. London: Information Design Journal Ltd.

Kass, A., Burke, R., Blevis, E., & Williamson, M. (1994). Constructing learning environments for complex social skills. The Journal of the Learning Sciences. 3(4). Pages 387-427. jstor listing

Saunders, M., Sierant, J., Downey, G., & Blevis, E. (1994). The Role of Content Specialists in the Design, Use and Transfer of a Multi-Media Tool-set that Features Believable Interactive Characters. Workshop Presentation at AAAI-94.

Blevis, E. B., Jenkins, M. A., and Glasgow, J. I. (1992). Motivations, sources, and initial design ideas for CALM: a composition analysis/generation language for music. In Understanding Music with Ai: Perspectives on Music Cognition, M. Balaban, K. Ebcio?lu, and O. Laske, Eds. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 140-154 ACM digital library link

Blevis, E., Burke, R., & Glasgow, J.I.. (1992). The Life analysis & depreciation integrated exemplar system (LADIES). International Journal of Expert systems. Vol 4(ii). Pages 141-55. ACM digital library listing

Blevis, E. & Kass, A. (1992). Teaching by Means of Social Simulation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Learning Sciences. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education.

Kass, A., & Blevis, E. (1991). Learning Through Experience: An Intelligent Learning-by-Doing Environment for Business Consultants. In Proceedings of Intelligent Computer-Aided Training (1991).

Glasgow, J.I., Jenkins, M.A., Blevis, E., & Feret, M.P. (1991). Logic Programming with Arrays. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Volume 3, Number 3. Pages 307-319. IEEE listing

Blevis, E., Feret, M.P., & Jenkins, M.A. (1990). A Computational paradigm for exploring creative musical thought. In Le Fait Musical: Sciences, Technologies, Pratiques, International Conférence Musique et Assistance Informatique Eds. B. Vecchione & B. Bel. Marseille: CRSM/MIM. 363-82.

Blevis, E.B., Jenkins, M.A., & Robinson, E.P. (1989). On Seeger's Music Logic. Interface Special Issue: Models of Musical Communication and Cognition Editor: Marc Leman, 18, 1-2. 9-31.

invited presentations ()

These are invited colloquium presentations not associated with a particular conference paper.

Umeå University, Sweden. (2007, November) Sustainable Interaction Design.

CMC 2007, Unversity of Oslo, Norway (2007, November). Discussant: Sustainability & Materiality. Competence & Media Convergence (CMC) 2007

Hong Kong Polytechnic School of Design (2007, November). Sustainable Interaction Design. (Post IASDR Event Presentation).

CMU HCI Institute, Pittsburg PA (2006) Notions of Design with an Emphasis on Sustainability-Centered Interaction Design

University of Washington, Tachoma WA (2006) Notions of Design

Intel Research, Portland OR (2006) Notions of Design

contact

eli blevis, phd
associate professor of informatics
human-computer interaction design
school of informatics
indiana university at bloomington
eblevis [at] indiana [dot] edu