Computing within limits
Abstract
The future of computing research relies on addressing an array of limitations on a planetary scale.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The computing within limits movement is guided by three core ideas: aiming for a steady-state economy and acknowledging the limit of growth, considering models of scarcity to promote resilience, and reducing energy and material consumption while avoiding the rebound effect.
“This movement is guided by three core ideas: aiming for a steady-state economy and acknowledging the limit of growth, considering models of scarcity in order to promote resilience, and reducing energy and material consumption while avoiding the rebound effect (Nardi et al., 2018).”
From Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action (2022) · cites this paper as Nardi et al., 2018
Cites
A safe operating space for humanity
Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K., Persson, Å., Chapin, F. S., Lambin, E. F., Lenton, T. M., Scheffer, M., Folke, C., Schellnhuber, H. J., et al. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/461472a · Cited by 13,333 · see citing works
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., Cornell, S. E., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E. M., Biggs, R., Carpenter, S. R., de Vries, W., de Wit, C. A., et al. (2015) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1259855 · Cited by 12,527 · see citing works
The Computer for the 21st Century
Weiser, M. (1991) · Scientific American · doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0991-94 · Cited by 10,017 · see citing works
Human domination of Earth’s ecosystems
Vitousek, P. M., Mooney, H. A., Lubchenco, J., & Melillo, J. M. (1997) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.277.5325.494 · Cited by 9,086 · see citing works
Jackson, T. P. (2009) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781849774338 · Cited by 2,020 · see citing works
Ecological economics: the science and management of sustainability
(1992) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.29-3406 · Cited by 1,618 · see citing works
The collapse of complex societies
(1989) · Choice Reviews Online · doi:10.5860/choice.26-2760 · Cited by 1,195 · see citing works
Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices
Murugesan, S. (2008) · IT Professional · doi:10.1109/mitp.2008.10 · Cited by 1,188 · see citing works
(2014) · African Studies Companion Online · doi:10.1163/1872-9037_afco_asc_2291 · Cited by 991 · see citing works
Sustainable interaction design
Blevis, E. (2007) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/1240624.1240705 · Cited by 786 · see citing works
Mapping the landscape of sustainable HCI
DiSalvo, C. F., Sengers, P., & Brynjarsdóttir, H. (2010) · ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) · doi:10.1145/1753326.1753625 · Cited by 783 · see citing works
Haldane, A. G., Shanbhogue, R., Attanasio, O. P., Besley, T. J., Lindert, P. H., Piketty, T., & Ventura, J. (2015) · RePEc: Research Papers in Economics · Cited by 763 · see citing works
Jackson, T. P. (2016) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9781315677453 · Cited by 732 · see citing works
Putting the 'smarts' into the smart grid
Ramchurn, S. D., Vytelingum, P., Rogers, A., & Jennings, N. R. (2012) · Communications of the ACM · doi:10.1145/2133806.2133825 · Cited by 465 · see citing works
The Robot That Won the DARPA Grand Challenge
Thrun, S. (2007) · Cited by 406 · see citing works
ICT Innovations for Sustainability
(2015) · Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-09228-7 · Cited by 390 · see citing works
Electricity Intensity of Internet Data Transmission: Untangling the Estimates
Aslan, J., Mayers, K., Koomey, J., & France, C. (2017) · Journal of Industrial Ecology · doi:10.1111/jiec.12630 · Cited by 217 · see citing works
Measuring progress in the degrowth transition to a steady state economy
O’Neill, D. W. (2011) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.05.020 · Cited by 199 · see citing works
The Collapse of Complex Societies
Rousselle, R., & Tainter, J. A. (1990) · The Classical World · doi:10.2307/4350705 · Cited by 189 · see citing works
Twitter‐based information distribution during the 2009 Red River Valley flood threat
Palen, L. A., Starbird, K., Vieweg, S. E., & Hughes, A. (2010) · Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology · doi:10.1002/bult.2010.1720360505 · Cited by 152 · see citing works
Preist, C., Schien, D., & Blevis, E. (2016) · Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/2858036.2858378 · Cited by 133 · see citing works
Tomlinson, B., Silberman, M. ‘., Patterson, D. J., Pan, Y., & Blevis, E. (2012) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/2207676.2207770 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
Self-citationRethinking sustainability in computing
Pargman, D. S., & Raghavan, B. (2014) · Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction · doi:10.1145/2639189.2639228 · Cited by 65 · see citing works
Self-citationMeans and Ends in Human-Computer Interaction
Raghavan, B., & Pargman, D. S. (2017) · CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3025453.3025542 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
Self-citationAnderson, M. W., Teisl, M. F., & Noblet, C. L. (2012) · Ecological Economics · doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.09.002 · Cited by 46 · see citing works
Computing within limits and ICTD
Chen, J. (2015) · First Monday · doi:10.5210/fm.v20i8.6124 · Cited by 43 · see citing works
Self-citationCaring for the "next billion" mobile handsets
Houston, L., & Jackson, S. J. (2016) · International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) · doi:10.1145/2909609.2909658 · Cited by 40 · see citing works
Masinde, M., Bagula, A., & Muthama, N. J. (2012) · International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) · doi:10.1145/2160673.2160690 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
The financial meltdown and computing
Vardi, M. Y. (2009) · Communications of the ACM · doi:10.1145/1562164.1562165 · Cited by 32 · see citing works
Networking in the long emergency
Raghavan, B., & Ma, J. H. (2011) · doi:10.1145/2018536.2018545 · Cited by 28 · see citing works
Self-citationA strategy for limits-aware computing
Chen, J. (2016) · Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS) · doi:10.1145/2926676.2926692 · Cited by 27 · see citing works
Self-citationAnderson, T. J., Kogan, M., Bica, M., et al. (2016) · ISCRAM · Cited by 26 · see citing works
Defining the role of HCI in the challenges of sustainability
Huang, E. M., Blevis, E., Mankoff, J. C., Nathan, L. P., & Tomlinson, B. (2009) · CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA) · doi:10.1145/1520340.1520751 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
Self-citationJang, E., Johnson, M. W., Burnell, E., & Heimerl, K. (2017) · Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS) · doi:10.1145/3080556.3080566 · Cited by 24 · see citing works
Haitian resiliency: A case study in intermittent infrastructure
Patterson, D. J. (2015) · First Monday · doi:10.5210/fm.v20i8.6129 · Cited by 22 · see citing works
Self-citationToward Alternative Decentralized Infrastructures
Tomlinson, B., Nardi, B. A., Patterson, D. J., Raturi, A., Richardson, D. J., Saphores, J.-D. M., & Stokols, D. (2015) · ACM Symposium on Computing for Development (ACM DEV) · doi:10.1145/2830629.2830648 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
Self-citationShelter Dynamics in Refugee and IDP Camps
Sabie, S., Chen, J., Abouzied, A., Hashim, F., Kahlon, H., & Easterbrook, S. (2017) · Workshop on Computing within Limits (LIMITS) · doi:10.1145/3080556.3080560 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
Self-citationPalen, L., Büscher, M., Comes, T., et al. (2015) · Cited by 17 · see citing works
Navigating connectivity in reduced infrastructure environments
Schmitt, P., & Belding, E. (2016) · doi:10.1145/2926676.2926691 · Cited by 7 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Dwivedi, Y. K., Hughes, L., Kar, A. K., Baabdullah, A. M., Grover, P., Abbas, R., Andreini, D., Abumoghli, I., Barlette, Y., Bunker, D., et al. (2022) · International Journal of Information Management · doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102456 · Cited by 761 · see citing works
A Decade of Sustainable HCI: Connecting SHCI to the Sustainable Development Goals
Hansson, L. Å. E. J., Cerratto Pargman, T., & Pargman, D. S. (2021) · Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3411764.3445069 · Cited by 148 · see citing works
Self-citationSelwyn, N., & Aagaard, J. (2021) · British Journal of Educational Technology · doi:10.1111/bjet.12943 · Cited by 119 · see citing works
Insolvent: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability
Becker, C. (2023) · doi:10.7551/mitpress/14668.001.0001 · Cited by 56 · see citing works
- Authors
- Nardi, B., Tomlinson, B., Patterson, D. J., Chen, J., Pargman, D., Raghavan, B., & Penzenstadler, B.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Westmont College (US)
- New York University Abu Dhabi (AE)
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE)
- University of Southern California (US)
- California State University, Long Beach (US)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Communications of the ACM
- Published
- 2018-09-26
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 86-93
- ISSN
- 0001-0782 (ISSN-L)
- 1557-7317
- OpenAlex
- W2894162319
- Cited by
- 115
- References
- 39
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 3
- FWCI
- 10.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Communications of the ACM (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Hardware and Architecture › Energy Efficiency in Computing
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Green IT and Sustainability
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › History of Computing Technologies
- Keywords
- planetary scale, scalability, global computing
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review