lisa p. nathan
the iSchool@UBC

sustainability

Nathan, L.P. (in press). Ecovillages: Information Tools & Deeply Sustainable Living. In P. Hasbach & P. Kahn (Eds.), Ecopsychology: Science, totems, and the technological species. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Huh, J., Nathan, L.P., Silberman, S., Blevis, E., Tomlinson, B., Senger, P., Busse, D. (2010) Examining Appropriation, Re-use, and Maintenance for Sustainability. Extended abstracts of the CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10), Atlanta, GA, USA. pp. 4457-4460.

Nathan, L.P., Friedman, B., and Hendry, D. (2009). Information system design as catalyst: Human action and environmental sustainability. Interactions, 16(4), 6-11.

Nathan, L. P. (2009). Ecovillages, Sustainability, and Information Tools: An ethnography of values, adaptation, and tension, doctoral dissertation, University of Washington.

Huang, E.M., Blevis, E., Mankoff, J., Nathan, L.P., & Tomlinson, B. Defining the Role of HCI in the Challenges of Sustainability. (2009). Extended abstracts of the CHI 2009 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), Boston, MA, USA. pp. 4827-4830.

Nathan, L.P. (2008). Ecovillages, values, and information technology: Balancing sustainability with daily life in 21st century America. (2008). Extended abstracts of the CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, Student Research Competition (30% acceptance rate) (CHI '08), Florence, Italy. pp. 3723-3728.

Nathan, L.P., Blevis, E., Friedman, B., Hasbrouck, J., & Sengers, P. (2008). Beyond the hype: Sustainability & HCI. Extended abstracts of the CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. (CHI '08), Florence, Italy. pp. 2273-2276.


envisioning methods

Friedman, B., Nathan, L. P., Kane, S. K., and Lin, J. (2011). Envisioning Cards. Seattle, WA: University of Washington. http://www.envisioningcards.com.

Nathan, L.P., Friedman, B., Klasnja, P.V., Kane, S.K., & Miller, J.K. (2008). Envisioning systemic effects of interactive technical systems. Proceedings of the Conference on the 7th ACM Conference Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '08), Cape Town, South Africa. pp.1-10.

Nathan, L.P., Klasnja, P.V., & Friedman, B. (2007). Value scenarios: A technique for envisioning systemic effects of new technologies. Extended abstracts of the CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), San Jose, CA, USA. pp. 2585-2590.

Nathan, L.P., Miller, J.K., & Friedman, B. (2006). SafetyNet: Safety in the city at what cost? Proceedings of the ExurbanNoir Workshop (Ubicomp '06), Orange County, CA, USA. 46-49.


multi-lifespan information system design research

Nathan, L. P., Friedman, B., Lake, M., Grey, N. G., Nilsen, T., Utter, R. F., et al. (2011). Multi-lifespan information system design: Investigating a new design approach in Rwanda. iConference '11, Seattle, WA, USA.

Friedman, B., & Nathan, L. P. (2010). Multi-lifespan information system design: A research initiative for the HCI community. Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10), Atlanta, GA, USA. pp. 2243-2246.

Friedman, B., Nathan, L. P., Lake, M., Grey, N. G., Nilsen, T., Utter, R. F., et al. (2010). Multi-lifespan information system design in post-conflict societies: An evolving project In Rwanda. Extended Abstracts of the CHI 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '10), Atlanta, GA, USA. pp 2833-2842.

Nathan, L.P. and Friedman, B. (2010). Interacting with Policy in a Political World: Reflections from the Voices from the Rwanda Tribunal Project. Interactions, 17(5), 56-59.


information practice & values

Meyers, E.M., Nathan, L.P., Unsworth, K. (2010). Who's watching you kids? Privacy and surveillance in virtual worlds for children. Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, 3(2).

Meyers, E.M., Nathan, L.P., & Saxton, M.L. (2008). Teacher-librarian communities: Changing practices in changing schools. In C. Kimball & P. Hildreth (Eds.) Communities of Practice: Creating learning environments for educators, Volume 2 (pp.197-219). UK: Information Age Publishing.

Meyers, E.M., Nathan, L.P., & Saxton, M.L. (2006). Barriers to information seeking in high school libraries: Conflicts between perception and practice. Paper presented at the Information Seeking in Context Conference (ISIC '06), Sydney, Australia. Published in Information Research, 12(2). Available through: http://informationr.net/ir/12- 2/paper295.html.