[Petit Fours 377] On sustainable HCI, troubling automated practices, and working as a dispatcher
Hello, world! New week, new platform, same old Petit Fours. Here's what I've got for you today:
#1 Check out the Call for Abstracts to the Revaluing expertise: troubling automated practices and human competences conference, to be held at University of Helsinki, May 15-16, 2024. "A widely recognised way to study changes in expertise is to explore them as processes of deskilling and reskilling, identifying qualitative and material reshaping of competence and its valuation. We will depart from this conventional framing and trace emerging skills and capabilities, attuned senses and automated suggestions and convictions to know and do, across different sectors of society. This allows us to pose questions about the broader landscape of automation, and how to combine and rework its practices with human sensory and interpretive competences. We are interested in what is shared, but also what is different across forms of digital expertise and knowledge formation, particularly in response to clashes with existing practices, values, and routines in the workplace and beyond."
#2 Interested in postdoc life in Stockholm? My colleagues Chiara Rossitto, Rob Comber, and Stanley Greenstein have a postdoctoral position open within Sustainable Human-Computer Interaction (SHCI), with a focus on design and the regulatory aspects that shape digital innovation for environmental care, more specifically waste management. Closing date: 29 February 2024.
#3 A question we should all pay attention to: How much electricity does AI consume?
#4 Anders Teglund, the author of Cykelbudet, is back with another book on the gig economy, Slavdrivaren. This one reports on the experience of working as a Foodora dispatcher.
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