Title

Plant Guild Composer: A Software System For Sustainability

Keywords

Human-computer interaction; Permaculture; Plant guilds; Requirements engineering; Sustainability

Abstract

This paper presents the design concept for a software application to aid users in the development of a sustainable backyard food and resource system1. It presents how we gathered and analyzed the requirements for an application that achieves a balance of user convenience, awareness, and sustainability in the context of creating a domestic plant guild. A plant guild is a community of plants that sustains itself and provides for people's essential needs. Based on a field study, the authors present requirements for building a Plant Guild Composer as one approach for addressing the aforementioned challenge. The requirements have been generalized because future applications that aide in the construction of a sustainable human system, which supports some human need without compromising the ability to satisfy this and other human needs in the future nor contributing to environmental degradation, may encounter similar design challenges.

Publication Date

1-1-2013

Publication Title

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volume

995

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

84908616244 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84908616244

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