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X-WR-CALNAME:Designing a Board Game to Explore and Communicate the Environm
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SUMMARY:Designing a Board Game to Explore and Communicate the Environmental
  Impact of AI
DESCRIPTION:BritCHI 2026 · Paper Session 5: Critical and Responsible HCI\n
 Gillespie\, Legon\, O'Brien\, Lopez\, Barany\, Lechelt\nAs technological d
 evelopments and financial investments into AI continue\, the physical foot
 print of these systems becomes more pronounced. The environmental impact o
 f AI is complex and sits at the intersection of two major issues: climate 
 change and technological innovation. Because of the scale of each issue\, 
 learned helplessness and disempowerment are profound. To address this\, dr
 awing on research through design methodologies and board games for sustain
 ability\, we developed SustAIn. SustAIn is a 2-4 player board game that en
 ables players to move throughout a tabletop world\, making decisions that 
 affect the game state as an analogy for the environment. The game is desig
 ned around the use of narratives that communicate the environmental impact
  of AI. In this way\, it seeks to establish a qualitative point of access 
 to complex environmental considerations that do not always have a robust o
 r comprehensive quantitative context. A print-and-play version of the game
  is available here: https://sustain-game.gitlab.io
LOCATION:Brunel University London\, Kingston Lane\, Uxbridge UB8 3PH
URL:https://www.britchi.uk/programme/schedule/paper-session-5-critical-and-
 responsible-hci/
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