David Roedl

On Friday, I presented my master’s capstone project, which in a symbolic sense concluded and summed up my design school experience. Putting together the presentation gave me a chance to reflect on the type of work I did this year: my approach, my process and the tacit knowledge gained. I came up with a […]

This essay is about the challenge of making environmental sustainability a focus of HCI research and practice. While environmental concerns have been around for a long time and have been considered important in other design disciplines like architecture and product design, the topic has only recently been recognized in the HCI community. It is also […]

I am currently reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan’s illuminating account of the industrial food system. The book provides an excellent explanation of where food comes from and the journey it travels before we eat it. What makes the book so powerful is that Pollan really connects all the dots; he manages to examine every […]