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Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures: Aligning Legal and Design Research Agendas

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  • Lachlan Urquhart
  • Susan Lechelt
  • Melissa Terras
  • Neelima Sailaja
  • Anna Marie Rezk
  • Teresa Castle-Green
  • Dimitrios Paris Darzentas
  • Namrata Primlani
  • Violet Owen
  • Michael Stead
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Publication date1/07/2024
Host publicationDIS '24 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherACM
Pages372-376
Number of pages5
ISBN (electronic)9798400706325
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The way consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are built is leading to electronic waste (eWaste) growth. This arises from planned obsolescence, bundling of ‘smartness’ creating more routes to device failure, and lacking hardware modularity and repairability. Understanding how to best to tackle these issues requires an interdisciplinary perspective bridging design, law, and the social science research. The legal landscape is shifting, encouraging design of repairable and long-lasting IoT, and reducing routes to redundancy. This one-day workshop explores the interface between design and legal research to address the socio-technical challenges around designing sustainable consumer IoT devices. The workshop will: map out the societal, legal, and environmental implications of IoT; envision the opportunities and barriers to designing more sustainable IoT; and share best practice and tools how to move towards more sustainable IoT futures.