Ninth Workshop on Computing within Limits
June 14-15 2023 (Online)
Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash
The LIMITS workshop concerns the role of computing in human societies situated in a world of limits*. As an interdisciplinary group of researchers, practitioners, and scholars, we seek to reshape the computing research agenda, grounded by an awareness that contemporary computing research is intertwined with ecological limits in general, and climate- and climate justice-related limits in particular. LIMITS 2023 solicits submissions that move us closer towards computing that support diverse human and non-human lifeforms and thriving biospheres.
* For example, limits of extractive logics, limits to a biosphere's ability to recover, limits to our knowledge, or limits to technological "solutions".
In 2023, LIMITS will be a virtual, distributed workshop. We welcome participants to organize local gatherings or "LIMITS-hubs" that encourage community-building and sharing of infrastructure. Reach out to Jan Tobias Mühlberg (jan.tobias.muehlberg@ulb.be) if interested.
Please register at this link if you plan on attending LIMITS ‘23, June 14-15 (virtual). Attendance is free. Registration is required for all attendees in order for us to send you the connection link and any schedule updates.
We welcome scholarship by researchers, engineers, designers, and artists who are investigating and/or (re)designing computing systems that engage with pressing ecological and social issues. We also invite works that build on previous LIMITS work, such as provocations from earlier LIMITS gatherings (e.g., Unplanned Obsolescence, LIMITS 2017), that broadens the understanding of LIMITS (e.g., Age of Consequences, LIMITS 2015), that explores our own limits (e.g., Computing within Psychological Limits, LIMITS 2015), that explores strategies for working in a LIMITed world (e.g., Limits-aware computing, LIMITS 2015), or that design and/or build transitional systems (e.g., Solar-powered website, LIMITS 2021). Transitional systems attempt to (re) design, implement, and/or evaluate a real-world or hypothetical socio-technical computing system in response to "implications for design" raised by earlier LIMITS papers or LIMITS-related scholarship in the areas of computing and sustainability, computing and climate-justice.
We also encourage authors to consider the stories they tell and reify through their work. As Costanza-Chock reminds us, "Stories have power". They ask us to consider, "(...) what stories are told about design problems, solutions, contexts, and outcomes? Who gets to tell these stories? Who participates, who benefits, and who is harmed?" (Costanza-Chock 2020 p. 134)
Abstract registration deadline: March 17, 2023, 11:59pm AOE
Paper submission deadline: March 31, 2023, 11:59pm AOE
Paper reviews available: April 28, 2023
Camera ready deadline: May 26, 2023
LIMITS Workshop: June 14-15, 2023
Register and submit papers at this site. (If you have any issues with the submission site, please email kheimerl@cs.washington.edu.)
Papers should adhere to the following guidelines:
Reviewing will be non-blind; authors should include their names and contact information and reviews will include reviewer names.
All papers will be made freely available on the workshop website. Copyright will remain with the authors.
Time |
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| 7:00 PDT / 16:00 CEST | LIMITS welcome |
| 7:30 PDT / 16:30 CEST | Paper Session 1 |
| Unpacking Intermittency: Living with Infrastructures in Southeast Louisiana J. Liu |
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| Evaluating the (ir)relevance of IoT solutions with respect to environmental limits based on LCA and backcasting studies T. Pirson, L. Golard, D. Bol |
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| 8:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST | Reverse panel / Break Out |
| 8:20 PDT / 17:20 CEST | Break (20 Min) |
| 8:40 PDT / 17:40 CEST | Paper Session 2 |
| Advancing Non-Linear Design Thinking S. Blevis, M. Heidaripour, S. Bardzell, E. Blevis |
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| Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Design Constraints in Computational Culture A. Mansoux, B. Howell, D. Barok, V. Heikkilä |
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| How do we arrive at constraints?: Articulating limits for computing M. Stojanov, D. Pargman, M. Hazas, R. Comber, J. Zapico |
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| 9:25 PDT / 18:25 CEST | Reverse panel / Break Out |
| 9:45 PDT / 18:45 CEST | Paper Session 3 |
| The Computational Limits of Deep Learning N. Thompson, K. Greenewald, K. Lee, G. Manso |
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| Imagining LIMITS: Can Chat-GPT radically re-imagine a new world? S. Cooney |
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| 10:15 PDT / 19:15 CEST | Reverse panel / Break Out |
| 10:35 PDT / 19:35 CEST | Break (15 Min) |
| 10:50 PDT / 19:50 CEST | Paper Session 4 |
| Pathways to urban sustainability: Design perspectives on a data curation and visualization platform E. Bhardwaj, H. Qiao, C. Becker |
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| Back to the trees: Identifying plants with Human Intelligence S. Castellan, J. Käfer, E. Tannier |
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| Mediating Environmental Consciousness and Knowledge with a Serious Game: Determining Boundaries Experimentally M. Bauer, M. Weiss |
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| 11:35 PDT / 20:35 CEST | Reverse panel / Break Out |
| 11:55 PDT / 20:55 CEST | Break (5 Min) |
| 12:00 PDT / 21:00 CEST | Paper Session 5 |
| Exploring inner transition: Expanding computing for sustainability D. Pargman, E. Eriksson |
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| Information systems practice for the age of consequences M. Silberman |
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| 12:30 PDT / 21:30 CEST | Reverse panel / Break Out |
| 13:00 PDT / 22:00 CEST | End of Day 1 |
Time |
Activity |
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| 7:00 PDT / 16:00 CEST | Day 2 welcome |
| 7:15 PDT / 16:15 CEST | Paper Session 6 |
| “Critical questions are missing”: Perspectives of environmental justice activists of Bangladesh on justice and technology H. Prottoy, L. Stamato, F. Hamidi |
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| The Climate Crisis is a Digital Rights Crisis: Exploring the Civil-Society Framing of an Intersecting Disasters F. Jansen, M. GÜLMEZ, B. Kazansky, H. Kingaby, C. Fernandez, J. Mühlberg |
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| Towards the Development of an Anti-Colonial Critique of Climate and Disaster Risk Models S. Paudel, S. Loos, R. Soden |
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| 8:00 PDT / 17:00 CEST | Reverse panel / Break Out |
| 8:20 PDT / 17:20 CEST | Break (20 Min) |
| 8:40 PDT / 17:40 CEST | Open Discussion |
| 10:20 PDT / 19:20 CEST | Break (15 Min) |
| 10:35 PDT / 19:35 CEST | Paper Session 7 |
| Fit for purpose: four considerations of how matter becomes material R. Bessai, R. Bendor, R. Balkenende |
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| A User-Centered Lens into Digital Excess: Exploring the Superfluity and Environmental Burden of the Digital World T. Olsson, O. Pyyhtinen, S. Laaksonen, M. Vigren, J. Ylipulli, A. Rantasila, N. Sawhney |
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| Celebration of Finitudeas a Post-Industrial Aesthetics of Interaction Y. Fernaeus,A. Lindegren |
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| 11:20 PDT / 20:20 CEST | Reverse panel / Break Out |
| 11:40 PDT / 20:40 CEST | Break (5 Min) |
| 11:45 PDT / 20:45 CEST | Paper Session 8 |
| Computing as Ecocide R. Comber, E. Eriksson |
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| Welcome to the Cybercene D. Schuler |
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| 12:15 PDT / 21:15 CEST | Reverse panel / Break Out |
| 12:35 PDT / 21:35 CEST | Closing of LIMITS |
| 13:00 PDT / 22:00 CEST | End of Day 2 |
Christoph Becker, University of Toronto, christoph.becker@utoronto.ca
Roy Bendor, Delft University of Technology, r.bendor@tudelft.nl
Eli Blevis, Indiana University, eblevis@indiana.edu
Alan Borning, University of Washington, borning@cs.washington.edu
Miriam Börjesson Rivera, Uppsala University, miriam.borjesson.rivera@it.uu.se
Jay Chen, ICSI, jchen@icsi.berkeley.edu
Teresa Cerratto Pargman, Stockholm University, tessy@dsv.su.se
Elina Eriksson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, elina@kth.se (co-chair)
Shaddi Hasan, Virginia Tech, shaddi@vt.edu
Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington, kheimerl@cs.washington.edu (co-chair)
Jan Tobias Mühlberg, Université libre de Bruxelles, jan.tobias.muehlberg@ulb.be
Lisa Nathan, University of British Columbia, lisa.nathan@ubc.ca (steering committee)
Vineet Pandey, MIT, vineetpa@mit.edu
Daniel Pargman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, pargman@kth.se
Birgit Penzenstadler, University of Gothenburg, Chalmers, birgitp@chalmers.se
Barath Raghavan, USC, barath.raghavan@usc.edu (steering committee)
June Salou, Delft University of Technology, J.Sallou@tudelft.nl