Sustainability Issues in Human Computer Interaction Design

The ICT market is growing rapidly and more business and social networking systems is crossing over to less developed regions. This IT usage expansion is associated with increasing environmental threats in the form of greenhouse effects and hardly decommissioned e-waste. For this reason sustainable development became an issue in the last two decades of the 20 century. Recently, sustainable software engineering has become a hot research topic; it spans sustainability aspects in all stages of software lifecycle. This paper discusses sustainability issues in the human-interaction design phase, and it suggests appropriate steps which would lead to tackle HCI sustainability issues such as lower power consumption, waste and saving the wellbeing of human users.