TY - GEN
T1 - Haikeus
T2 - 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, UbiComp/ISWC 2023
AU - Mihaleva, Galina
AU - Dalton, Abigail
AU - Fitzgerald, Mary
AU - Chowdhury, Abhik
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Owner/Author.
PY - 2023/10/8
Y1 - 2023/10/8
N2 - Combined with the unprecedented stress of the COVID-19 crisis and the increase in social unrest, human-caused environmental disasters are having a profound impact on well-being, resulting in a dramatic spike in mental health issues. Studies are emerging daily around concepts of ecological grieving stress, depression, anxiety, and a host of emotions that are surfacing and increasing in our modern times. From eco-nostalgia to eco-anxiety and eco-grief, our responses to climate change, environmental devastation, and social unrest can prevent us from taking positive action, often leading to existential crises. Our proposed project, Haikeus: Transmuting Ecological Grieving into Action, works directly at the interface of some of humanity's wicked problems, which are complex, challenging to solve, and hard to fully understand. The aim of this project is to bring awareness and motivation for transmuting such an emotion into an action through the power of creativity. We further argue that the established methods could facilitate a more nuanced understanding of organizational barriers to communicate its potential value to proceed with the change.
AB - Combined with the unprecedented stress of the COVID-19 crisis and the increase in social unrest, human-caused environmental disasters are having a profound impact on well-being, resulting in a dramatic spike in mental health issues. Studies are emerging daily around concepts of ecological grieving stress, depression, anxiety, and a host of emotions that are surfacing and increasing in our modern times. From eco-nostalgia to eco-anxiety and eco-grief, our responses to climate change, environmental devastation, and social unrest can prevent us from taking positive action, often leading to existential crises. Our proposed project, Haikeus: Transmuting Ecological Grieving into Action, works directly at the interface of some of humanity's wicked problems, which are complex, challenging to solve, and hard to fully understand. The aim of this project is to bring awareness and motivation for transmuting such an emotion into an action through the power of creativity. We further argue that the established methods could facilitate a more nuanced understanding of organizational barriers to communicate its potential value to proceed with the change.
KW - Wearable haptic
KW - biomaterial
KW - ecological disaster
KW - ecological grief
KW - transmuting
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U2 - 10.1145/3594739.3610784
DO - 10.1145/3594739.3610784
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - UbiComp/ISWC 2023 Adjunct - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing
SP - 301
EP - 303
BT - UbiComp/ISWC 2023 Adjunct - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 8 October 2023
ER -