ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies

The negative impact humans have on the environment is partly caused by thoughtless consumption leading to unnecessary waste. A likely contributing factor is the relative invisibility of waste: waste produced by individuals is either out of their sight or ...

Social media offers increasingly diverse mechanisms for the distribution of motivated information, with multiple propaganda communities exhibiting overlaps with respect to user, content, and network characteristics. This has particularly been an issue in ...

Understanding the energy usage of a community is crucial for policymaking, energy planning, and achieving sustainable development. The advent of the smart grid has made it feasible to gather fine-grain energy usage data at large-scales, providing us with ...

Driving stress significantly impacts driving behavior primarily from roadside factors, where driving is more challenging in developing countries (i.e., Bangladesh) for unique cultural and infrastructural setups. We conduct an exploratory study (...

Human–vehicle interaction is an important factor for safe driving. The driver needs to interact with the in-vehicle steering wheel and infotainment system properly during driving. Specifically, driving guidelines require the driver to hold the steering ...

The COVID-19 pandemic required clear communication of risk and community engagement. A gap is noted in scholarly studies portraying strong community engagement for risk handling, particularly in resource-constrained regions in the HCI community. This ...

In this article, we explore the complex phenomena behind why people “hold on” to disused connected devices, focusing especially on differences between “traditional” smartphones and computers, and newer categories of smart home devices, wearables, and ...

A key question in e-participation is what roles public officials can play to harness the benefits of emerging technologies and practices, mitigate potential harms, and, ultimately, ensure more inclusive and effective public involvement in decision making. ...

Over 30 million people globally consume illicit opiates. In recent decades, Afghanistan has accounted for 70–90% of the world’s illicit supply of opium. This production provides livelihoods to millions of Afghans, while also funneling hundreds of millions ...

Developing countries need to better manage fast increasing traffic flows, owing to rapid urbanization. Else, increasing traffic congestion would increase fatalities due to reckless driving, as well as keep vehicular emissions and air pollution critically ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, women are caretakers of their homes. Despite the gendered nature of technology use, human-computer interaction research has rarely focused on women's interaction with domestic technologies in this context. We explore how urban women ...

Sustainability has long been a topic of substantial interest to the design and human-centered computing communities. With industries increasingly prioritizing climate targets, there is a growing demand for sustainable product design. This article ...

Landmines remain a threat to war-affected communities for years after conflicts have ended, partly due to the laborious nature of demining tasks. Humanitarian demining operations begin by collecting relevant information from the sites to be cleared, which ...

Early detection and treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) is crucial. However, current diagnostic methods have several drawbacks, including being time consuming for clinical interviews, susceptible to emotional bias for self-reports, and inconclusive ...

The economic costs of Internet shutdowns are far-reaching and widespread and span beyond the simple disruption to communication networks that are reliant on access to the Internet. Existing work on the impacts of the Internet shutdowns does not ...

We propose an automated lowest floor elevation (LFE) estimation algorithm based on computer vision techniques to leverage the latent information in street view images. Flood depth-damage models use a combination of LFE and flood depth for determining ...

Wearable technology holds promise for monitoring and managing Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD), yet the absence of clear biomarkers specific to SAD hampers its effectiveness. This article explores this issue by presenting a study investigating variances in ...