All Outputs (4)

Elmo: An Embodied Conversational Assistant For Community Repair Cafés (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castle-Green, T., Castle-Green, S., Lindley, J., Sailaja, N., & Lechelt, S. (2025, July). Elmo: An Embodied Conversational Assistant For Community Repair Cafés. Presented at 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI 25), Waterloo ON Canada

Repair cafés provide a community service that supports and empowers item ‘Bringers’ to reinstate traditional values of repair in order to reduce climate impacts of waste. In this paper, we report on a pilot study exploring the use of Elmo (an embodie... Read More about Elmo: An Embodied Conversational Assistant For Community Repair Cafés.

Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices (2024)
Journal Article
Castle-Green, T., & Sailaja, N. (2024). Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices. BASE - Revista de Administração e Contabilidade da Unisinos, 9(10), 150-161. https://doi.org/10.52611/bdi.num10.2024.999

Electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste, is a health and environmental hazard that affects many people and ecosystems around the world. As the volume of e-waste continues to surge, it is imperative this issue is addressed. Contributing to t... Read More about Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices.

"It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castle-Green, T., Lewandowska, K., & Sailaja, N. (2024, September). "It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT. Presented at GoodIT '24: International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, Bremen, Germany

Fueled by the rapidly increasing Internet of Things industry, the volume of global e-waste escalates annually posing significant health and environmental risks. Our research around repairability of IoT devices to elongate their lifespan has uncovered... Read More about "It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT.

UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Castle-Green, T., Coulton, P., Stead, M., Lindley, J., Urquhart, L., & Darzentas, D. P. (2023, October). UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices. Presented at UbiComp/ISWC '23: The 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo Mexico

IoT products are increasingly becoming the default, with non-IoT versions of common hardware (e.g., TVs and printers) harder to find. Alongside this adoption surge, lack of support, outdated security, and planned obsolescence present concerning susta... Read More about UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices.