Incorporating Sustainability in Electronics Design: Obstacles and Opportunities

要旨

Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a methodology for holistically measuring the environmental impact of a product from initial manufacturing to end-of-life disposal. However, the extent to which LCA informs the design of computing devices remains unclear. To understand how this information is collected and applied, we interviewed 17 industry professionals with experience in LCA or electronics design, systematically coded the interviews, and investigated common themes. These themes highlight the challenge of LCA data collection and reveal distributed decision-making processes where responsibility for sustainable design choices—and their associated costs—is often ambiguous. Our analysis identifies opportunities for HCI technologies to support LCA computation and its integration into the design process to facilitate sustainability-oriented decision-making. While this work provides a nuanced discussion about sustainable design in the information and communication technologies (ICT) hardware industry, we hope our insights will also be valuable to other sectors.

受賞
Honorable Mention
著者
Zachary Englhardt
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Felix Hähnlein
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Yuxuan Mei
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Tong Lin
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Connor Masahiro. Sun
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Zhihan Zhang
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Shwetak Patel
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Adriana Schulz
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
Vikram Iyer
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3713299

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713299

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会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: Sustainable Individual, Society, and Environment

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