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. This past week I submitted a paper to the largest conference in my area,  CHI  (" The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction "). Since the conference is peer reviewed (double-blind), I can not divulge the title of the paper nor indeed anything about the contents, but, I can say that the paper (for once) has little to do with "sustainability" and all the more to do with "design". Even though I can't say anything about the contents of the paper, I can say a few things about my co-authors and how the paper came about. It all started when I invited  Staffan Björk  (professor of interaction design at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University) to give a guest lecture in my course last year. I thought the lecture was  fantastically  interesting and we decided to meet up and discuss/evaluate the possibility of writing a spin-off paper together durin...

. My first-ever article that is not about computing has just been published (it's about peak oil and sustainability). The publisher (Elsevier) informs me that the article is publicly available for free for for everyone for 50 days (until November 7) if you follow this link . The article will unfortunately not be available under open access after that since there is no research project that backs it up (and that could pay the fees for setting the article free). I should at some point also closely read  Elsevier's sharing policy . The article, " What if there had only been half the oil? Rewriting history to envision the consequences of peak oil " is an exercise in contrafactual history ("what if...?") and it is written by  Daniel Pargman , Elina Eriksson , Mikael Höök , Joshua Tanenbaum , Marcel Pufal and Josefin Wangel . Since this is a strange bird - it's not every day you get an article about contrafactual history published in a reputable academic jou...

. I read the four books below more than a year ago, in April and May 2016 so I'm 15+ months behind in writing about books at the moment. All four books deal with energy and the first two are jam-packed with really interesting information. There are a lot of quotes from these books further below (more than 100 for the first three books together!) and the quotes are represented by the number of asterisks right below. Here's the previous blog post about books I have read. ********************************** In the Servitude of Power: Energy and Civilization through the Ages was a very hard book to get hold of. It can't quite remember, but it might have been quite pricey too when I finally found it. The book was published in French in 1986 and in English in 1991 and is written by two historians and a physicist, Jean-Claude Debeir, Jean-Paul Deléage and Daniel Hémery . The book has two distinct parts where the first part is timeless and fascinating and the second is less so. ...