Summary: Rebound Effects in Sustainable HCI
Samuel J. Kaufman
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195 USA
kaufmans@cs.washington.edu
M. Six Silberman
Bureau of Economic Interpretation
six@economicinterpretation.org
Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).
CHI 2011, May 7­12, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
ACM 978-1-4503-0268-5/11/05.
Abstract
Much sustainable HCI design research hopes to achieve net
reductions in greenhouse gas emissions via persuasive or
more efficient technologies. This research has shown promis-
ing results. However, the proxies generally used in evaluation
(e.g. less energy or water consumption) may be poor indica-
tors of such systems' effect on emissions because of effects
outside the scope of analysis; in particular, direct and indirect

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