Grand Challenge 4
How do we create technologies that sustain people and the planet?
Advances in AI, remote sensing and other technologies offer new ways to anticipate and mitigate environmental concerns, from dwindling biodiversity to intensifying wildfires.
But these same technologies can present concerns of their own in the form of electronic waste, pollution and energy consumption. Allen School researchers are developing new materials and techniques to maximize technology’s potential while minimizing its environmental footprint.
Selected Projects
Kyle Johnson, Vicente Arroyos, Amélie Ferran, Raul Villanueva, Dennis Yin, Tilboon Elberier, Alberto Aliseda, Sawyer Fuller, Vikram Iyer, Shyam Gollakota
Science Robotics, 2023
Science Robotics, 2023
Zhihan Zhang*, Felix Hähnlein*, Yuxuan Mei*, Zachary Englhardt, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Vikram Iyer. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2024
Zhihan Zhang, Agni K. Biswal, Ankush Nandi, Kali Frost, Jake A. Smith, Bichlien H. Nguyen, Shwetak Patel, Aniruddh Vashisth, Vikram Iyer. Nature Sustainability, 2024
Milin Kodnongbua, Zachary Englhardt, Ricardo Bianchini, Rodrigo Fonseca, Alvin Lebeck, Daniel S. Berger, Vikram Iyer, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Adriana Schulz
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 43, Issue 6 (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2024
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Volume 43, Issue 6 (SIGGRAPH ASIA), 2024
Zachary Englhardt, Felix Hähnlein, Yuxuan Mei, Tong Lin, Connor Masahiro Sun, Zhihan Zhang, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Vikram Iyer. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2025
Zhihan Zhang, Puvarin (Pu) Thavikulwat, Alexander Metzger, Yuxuan Mei, Felix Hähnlein, Zachary Englhardt, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Tingyu Cheng, Vikram Iyer. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2025
Migineishvili, Nino, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Emmanuel Azuh, Spencer A. Wood, Rene Just, and Katharina Reinecke
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2025
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2025