Evaluating Sustainable Interaction Design of Digital Services: The Case of YouTube

Chris Preist; Daniel Schien; Paul Shabajee

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300627

Evaluating Sustainable Interaction Design of Digital Services: The Case of YouTube

Chris Preist, Daniel Schien, Paul Shabajee

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Recent research has advocated for a broader conception of evaluation for Sustainable HCI (SHCI), using interdisciplinary insights and methods. In this paper, we put this into practice to conduct an evaluation of Sustainable Interaction Design (SID) of digital services. We explore how SID can contribute to corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction strategies. We show how a Digital Service Provider (DSP) might incorporate SID into their design process and quantitatively evaluate a specific SID intervention by combining user analytics data with environmental life cycle assessment. We illustrate this by considering YouTube. Replacing user analytics data with aggregate estimates from publicly available sources, we estimate emissions associated with the deployment of YouTube to be approximately 10MtCO2e p.a. We estimate emissions reductions enabled through the use of an SID intervention from prior literature to be approximately 300KtCO2e p.a., and demonstrate that this is significant when considered alongside other emissions reduction interventions used by DSPs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-12
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9781450359702
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300627
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2019
Event	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019 - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 4 May 2019 → 9 May 2019

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Conference	2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	4/05/19 → 9/05/19

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Digital service
Evaluation
Interaction design
Sustainability
Sustainable HCI

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Preist, C , Schien, D & Shabajee, P 2019, Evaluating Sustainable Interaction Design of Digital Services: The Case of YouTube. in CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 397, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1-12, 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300627

Evaluating Sustainable Interaction Design of Digital Services: The Case of YouTube. / Preist, Chris ; Schien, Daniel ; Shabajee, Paul.
CHI 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019. p. 1-12 397.

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