SGER: Rethinking Drivers for IT: Lessons from a Newfoundland Fishing Village

该项目通过对宽带IT在纽芬兰Change Island的到来进行民族志调查，确定了植根于工业化消费文化的当代IT设计中的隐含假设。Change Island是一个与环境关系密切的偏远、以生存为导向的工人阶级社区。这项探索性工作声称，当前的驱动因素不适当地面向不可持续的未来，并提出了一种新的观点，即一群用户的特定需求和生活模式并不为IT设计人员所熟知，他们可以为IT设计确定更可持续的未来。这个项目首先认识到，我们必须从根本上重新思考我们与环境的关系。该项目对这一特定社区与工业化消费文化的边缘联系进行了理解，以突出基于工业化取向的日常IT设计方面，如消费品的大规模生产和消费以及与自然环境的脱节。为了回应这一理解，开发了一本设计案例手册，以反映人机交互(HCI)的可持续方法。接受变化的岛民产生的设计方向？生活方式和观点严重促进了对信息技术实践的根本反思，这将是可持续人机界面的基本要求。

This project identifies implicit assumptions in contemporary IT design rooted in industrialized consumer culture through an ethnographic investigation of the arrival of broadband IT in Change Islands, Newfoundland, a remote, subsistence-oriented, working-class community with close ties to the environment. This exploratory work claims that the current drivers are inappropriately oriented towards a non-sustainable future, and the fresh perspective that a group of users whose particular needs and patterns of life are not well-known to IT designers can identify a more sustainable future for IT design. This project starts with the recognition that we must substantially rethink our relationship to the environment. The project develops an understanding of the marginal ties of this particular community to an industrialized consumer culture to highlight the aspects of everyday IT design which are predicated on industrialized orientations such as mass production and consumption of consumer goods and a disconnect with the natural environment. In response to this understanding, a design case book is developed to reflect a sustainable approach to human-computer interaction (HCI). Design directions that arise from taking Change Islanders? lifestyle and perspectives seriously contribute to the fundamental rethinking of IT practice which will be an essential requirement of sustainable HCI.