I am a researcher and designer focused primarily on the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Design. I am interested in how complex social issues such as environmental sustainability play out in the context of everyday life, and how everyday life can be approached as a site for both understanding and addressing such issues. My research investigates how technology--understood broadly-- affects how we live our everyday lives in (un)sustainable ways, and how we can and should design technology differently. This importantly may involve explicitly designing to remove or displace certain technologies and practices. I employ a combination of methodological approaches in my research, primarily: ethnographic approaches to study people and practices; critical approaches to examine the technologies, practices and values of everyday life, as well as of design and research practice themselves; and design approaches to materialize and explore potential future ways of living and experiencing with technology. A major theme of my research is everyday consumption practices, particularly with respect to the ways people use and live with electrical energy and durable material goods. I am currently a PhD student at the HCI Institute at Carnegie Mellon University working with Eric Paulos in the Living Environments Lab. Previously I was at Indiana University where I earned a master's in Human-Computer Interaction Design. Prior to that I earned a B.S. in Mathematics and studied Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology and llinois Institute of Design. Contact me at jjpierce [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] [edu] + NEWS
April '12
3 papers accepted to CHI '12: "Undesigning technology", "Beyond energy monitors", and "How persuasion narrows our vision of sustainability"
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