This paper challenges the sustainable HCI community to move away from a focus on demand and instead address climate change as a supply problem. We identify a new route to impact, namely addressing the psychological barriers that interfere with political mobilization toward limiting the use of fossil fuels. Five barriers are explored as a means of refocusing research objectives for the community.
The sustainable HCI community has been criticised for a focus on the individual, limiting the potential to address broader energy savings REF .
Rethinking plan A for sustainable HCI
CHI '14
Computer Science