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I am a design researcher focused on articulating and addressing issues of ecological and social "sustainability"-- including ethical issues of what exactly ought and ought not to be sustained. My research involves proposing ways of re-directing everyday practices toward sustainability through the re-design of both new and old technologies. This importantly may involve explicitly designing to remove or displace certain technologies and practices. I tend to employ a combination of methodological approaches in my research, primarily: ethnographic approaches to study people, technologies and everyday interactions and practices; critical and speculative approaches to examine the technologies, practices and values of everyday life as well as of design and research practice themslves; and design approaches to partially materialize and explore potential future interactions, practices and values through technology. 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
jjpierce [ at ] cs [ dot ] cmu [ dot ] edu + NEWS
07/10 - Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference
06/10 - D&E '10
04/10 - DIS '10
12/09 - CHI '10
05/09 - PARC Intern
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