From Gaia to HCI: On Multi-disciplinary Design and Co-adaptation

In 1979, James Lovelock published a controversial book entitled Gaia: A New look at Life on Earth, which challenged the conventional wisdom about how the earth evolved. He hypothesized that living organisms form a self-regulating system, named after the Greek Goddess Gaia, which is directly responsible for creating and maintaining the earth's atmosphere. In other words, life did not simply evolve in response to pre-existing physical conditions but rather co-evolved, regulating the earth's physical conditions to create a homeostatic balance that has been maintained for eons. Although initially trained in chemistry,