Conservation through Conversation - A Provocation

Daniel Rough

doi:10.1145/3469595.3469602

Conservation through Conversation - A Provocation

Daniel Rough

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Abstract

The world is in the midst of an ecological crisis. Biodiversity is plummeting, the ice caps are melting, rainforest wildlife is being slaughtered wholesale for palm oil plantations, and we're consuming far too much of the planet's resources. The volume of carbon dioxide being pumped into the atmosphere, warming our planet, and destroying the environment, is unsustainable. CUI research won't matter if humanity itself can't provide its side of the conversation. This is everyone's problem, and everyone can be part of the solution, whether it's eating less meat or not binning our recyclables. Can we, as CUI researchers, do anything more specific? I think we can, and should, be making the conversation about conservation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2021
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	1-3
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450389983
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3469595.3469602
Publication status	Published - 27 Jul 2021
Event	3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Spain Duration: 27 Jul 2021 → 29 Jul 2021

Publication series

Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Conference

Conference	3rd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, CUI 2021
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Virtual, Online
Period	27/07/21 → 29/07/21

Keywords

behaviour change
conversational user interfaces
ecology
environmental science
voice user interfaces

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Software

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