Eli Blevis serves on the faculty in the Human-Computer Interaction Design program of the School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Blevis' primary area of research, and the one for which he is best known, is sustainable interaction design. This area of research and Dr. Blevis' core expertise are situated within the confluence of human computer interaction as it owes to the computing and cognitive sciences, and design as it owes to the reflection of design criticism and the practice of critical design. Dr. Blevis has published more than 50 articles and papers and has given several invited colloquia internationally on sustainable interaction design and the larger context of notions of design.

Jenny is a Masters student in the HCI/d program.  Her research interests include sustainable interaction design methodology, pervasive computing, and ethnography.  She is interested in determining how technology can be used to create and support high quality sustainable lifestyles. 
 

Shruti is a recent graduate of the HCI/d Master program. She is interested in how existing technology can be designed to be more useful, and better placed in our society.
She wants to motivate people to be more thoughtful of impact of their activities on the environment.

Website: http://www.shrutibhandari.com

Susan is a Masters student in the HCI/d program. She is interested in geoinformatics and leveraging technology to create sustainable design solutions. Susan is working with an inter-disciplinary team dedicated to preserving the health of coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea. Other activities include small scale biodiesel production, supporting local food networks and being "room mother" for her son's first grade class.

Bala is a Masters student in the HCI/d program, finishing in 2008. He is interested in the social effects of technology, sustainability and the design of effective public
spaces and public transit. His Masters Capstone project was about using technology to motivate people to interact with their neighbors, more details can be found at http://mypage.iu.edu/~balchenn/neighbors.html.
 

Kristin Hanks is a doctoral student in Social Informatics and has a master's degree in Human Computer Interaction Design from Indiana University. In addition, Kristin has eight years of experience working in university computing, including five years as an Operations Coordinator at IU’s University Information Technology Services. Her present work focuses on establishing stategic design plans for the "greening" of large organizations. This summer, Kristin is working on the Sustainable Computing project and will be developing a set of recommendations to reduce the environmental impact of computing on the IUB campus.
 
Here are some press releases on the works that Kristin involves in:
http://www.greenercomputing.com/news/2009/06/17/indiana-university-saves-with-power-management-project?t=1245273988
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11142.html
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/10798.html

Will Odom is concerned with advancing designerly approaches in the context HCI research. Among other things, his interests lie at the intersection of sustainability, interaction design, and design for everyday life. Recently, his Masters research on Personal Inventories took first place at the CHI 2008 Graduate Student Research Competition. Along with his teammate David Roedl, he took first place in the interface design competition at the 2008 Microsoft Imagine Cup. Currently, he is a Fulbright Scholar at Griffith University Queensland College of Art in Brisbane, Australia. He has been known to enjoy copious amounts of espresso from time to time.

Website: http://www.willodom.com

Relevant projects:

Odom, W. 2008. Personal inventories: toward durable human-product relationships. In CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy, April 05 - 10, 2008). CHI '08. ACM, New York, NY, 3777-3782. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1358628.1358929

Odom, W. , Blevis, E., Stolterman, E. (2008, to appear Sept/Oct issue). Personal Inventories in the Context of Sustainability & Interaction Design. In (Blevis, E., contributing editor, Anderson, R. & Kolko, J., EICs)
Forum: Sustainably Ours. ACM Interactions. Volume XV number 5. ACM Press, New York, NY.

James is interested in the design of interactive products, services and systems which satisfy both our short-term and personal desires for pleasure, enjoyment and meaning, as well as our long-term and collective needs related to environmental and social sustainability. He is particularly interested in the intersections of design, criticism and sustainability. James drinks less espresso than Will, but compensates by drinking more milkshakes.

Website: www.jamesjpierce.com Relevant projects: Pierce, J., Odom, W., Blevis, E. (2008, forthcoming). Energy Aware Dwelling: A Critical Survey of Interaction Design for Eco-Visualizations. In proceedings of OZCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems Cairns, Australia. OZCHI ’08. ACM Press. Pierce, J. & Roedl, D. (2008, July). Changing Energy Use through Design. In (Blevis, E., contributing editor, Anderson, R. & Kolko, J., EICs) Forum: Sustainably Ours. ACM Interactions. Volume XV Number 1. ACM Press, New York, NY.

Dave Roedl is a recent graduate of the HCI/d Master Program. His primary interest is in eco-visualization--using interactive technology to make resource consumption visible in order to promote sustainable behaviors. Last semester, as part of his master’s capstone project, he designed
and implemented an energy-saving contest among the IUB residence halls (http://energychallenge.indiana.edu). He was recently awarded first place (along with teammate Will Odom) in the 2008 Microsoft Imagine Cup Interface Design competition. An article he co-authored with James Pierce was featured as the cover story for the July+August issue of ACM Interactions magazine. This summer, David will be creating an interactive public display to raise awareness about resource consumption on on the IUB campus. For more information, visit www.davidroedl.com.

Feixing is a Master student in the HCI/d program. She was involved in a project with Stranger's Hill Organic Farm to design a data record mobile device that collects data for production analysis. The data might also be used to inform consumers of the farming process and produce's growth history.

Recently, her project on designing a community-based household items exchange platform was chosen to advance to the Microsoft's Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in Cairo, Egypt. http://imaginecup.com/MyStuff/MyTeam.aspx?TeamId=18132

Website: www.feixingtuang.com

Alex is a Master student in the HCI/d program. Being a human-computer interaction designer and researcher, He is interested in exploring how design shapes human behavior, facilitates human understanding, mediates human relationship, affects human emotion and enhances human experience.
 
Website: mypage.iu.edu/~zhux/main.html
 
Relevant projects:
Stranger's Hill Organic Farm Design Project
Sustainable Attitudes and Behaviors Amongst the CHI Community and Challenges to the "Greening" of CHI?
Sustainable Interaction Design for Velomobile