More than Simple Living: A Cultural Perspective on Sustainable Living

Dhaval Vyas

More than Simple Living: A Cultural Perspective on Sustainable Living

Dhaval Vyas

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This paper provides a cultural perspective to the sustainability research within HCI. I draw on the results from an ethnographic field study of sustainable household practices of ten women belonging to the so-called middle class in India. Focusing on their reuse practices, I provide examples of domestic artefacts that are creatively and resourcefully reused from worn-out artefacts. My initial findings show that the rationale behind creating such artefacts is not limited to the practicality and usefulness, but how cultural and religious beliefs are incorporated into such practices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '12
Subtitle of host publication	the 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Austin, Texas, USA, May 5-10, 2012
Editors	M. Håkanson
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1016-1
Publication status	Published - 6 May 2012
Event	CHI 2012 Workshop on Simple, Sustainable Living - Austin, United States Duration: 6 May 2012 → 6 May 2012 http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~mch267/CHI2012-workshop

Workshop

Workshop	CHI 2012 Workshop on Simple, Sustainable Living
Country/Territory	United States
City	Austin
Period	6/05/12 → 6/05/12
Internet address	http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~mch267/CHI2012-workshop

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METIS-286366
EWI-21878
HMI-HF: Human Factors
IR-80493

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More than Simple Living: A Cultural Perspective on Sustainable Living. / Vyas, Dhaval.
CHI '12: the 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Austin, Texas, USA, May 5-10, 2012. ed. / M. Håkanson. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012.

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