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
Copyright Status
Unknown
Socpus ID
84908616244 (Scopus)
Source API URL
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84908616244
STARS Citation
Norton, Juliet; Stringfellow, Alex J.; Laviola, Joseph J.; Penzenstadler, Birgit; and Tomlinson, Bill, "Plant Guild Composer: A Software System For Sustainability" (2013). Scopus Export 2010-2014. 7730.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2010/7730