The Green Mode is an app concept for an iPhone that explores the idea of switching off active functions and apps when the user does not need them.
Greetings from Sunny California. We presented The Green Switch presentation in SustainIT’10 workshop today just a moment ago. The reception was again good, and definitely there will be more discussion later today about sustainable IT. Here’s The Green Switch presentation straight away for your reading pleasure.
Thank you for all organisers of Mobile Monday London in Brighton event. It was great to meet other mobile professionals and get good feedback on our work straight from peers. Also it was the most welcome opportunity to visit coastline, albeit briefly!
Our next stop is USENIX conference and SustainIT workshop (San Jose, CA), where we will be speaking on 22 February 2010.
Download The Green Switch presentation for Mobile Monday London, 18 January 2010 (PDF, 549KB)
Brighton, listen up! We will be talking with Galit and Riikka in Mobile Monday event in Brighton this Monday 18 January, starting at 6 pm. The event will be examining the question of power efficiency of mobile applications, so sign up while you can – there are only 11 places available at the moment. The event is jointly organised by Mobile Monday London and the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network.
See you there!
This is an abstract of our paper for SustainIT, the first USENIX Workshop on Sustainable Information Technology, taking place in San Jose (CA) on February 22, 2010.
Download The Green Switch paper
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Abstract
Growth of mobile users is projected to reach 6 billion by 2013, with 80% of users in the developing world where the mobile phone is their primary communication and computing device. At the same time, sales of energy-intensive Smart Phones have grown 15% last year with all mobile phones to be Smart by 2015. The increased consumption means an average replacement rate of 18 months, accounting for 500 million handsets replaced last year in Europe alone. This makes the mobile phone the consumer electronic device with the highest replacement rate in history.
These parallel and growing trends make sustainability in mobile computing an urgent problem to address. In addressing sustainability, solutions with a significant impact that actively reduce emissions are required. Such efforts within the mobile industry are underway in the manufacturing and disposal phases. However, sustainability efforts in the product use-phase have been limited. Efforts have largely focused on the ecological appeal, neglecting to address the human or user appeal that is required to instigate behavioural change on a mass-market level. To redress this issue, this position paper outlines a product and service design methodology called The Green Switch. The methodology is structured as a human and ecological check-list that creates a framework by which one can assess the likely mass-market take-up and therefore the positive environmental impact of a mobile product or service. In addition, the paper introduces an early-stage design concept called the Green Mode App, as an example of a mobile product which adheres to The Green Switch methodology.