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Hope for the best and prepare for the worst: interaction design and the tipping point

for and adapt to climate change under the possibility that we will reach a tipping point, or the possibility that we have already done so. In what follows, we describe the present state of sustainable interaction design. We describe the potential role of interaction design in preparation for and adaptation to a post–tipping point world in terms of digital projects we may undertake for monitoring global conditions, setting public policies , and informing public behaviors, and in terms of arenas of potential effects and concern, such as water supplies, rebalancing of ecosystems, food supplies and food safety, dangers to habitations (especially coastal ones), health, and migration. We characterize computational concerns in the context of preparation and adaptation to climate change and note the similarities and differences with computational concerns targeted at inducing behavioral change to reduce greenhouse gases. the tipping Point The tipping point, by definition, is the point at which any efforts to stop something from happening arrive too late. According to the 2007 Nobel Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), we are at imminent risk of reaching a tipping point with respect to climate change and beyond the point at which even the very best case scenarios predict a certain unavoidable amount of climate change. The IPCC states: " There is high confidence that neither adaptation nor mitigation alone can avoid all climate change impacts; however, they can complement each other and together can significantly reduce the risks of climate change. Adaptation is necessary in the short and longer Typical interaction designers are not climate scientists, but interaction designers can make well-informed use of climate sciences and closely related sciences. Interaction design can make scientific information, interpretations, and perspectives available in an accessible and widely distributed form so that people's consciousness is raised. Such consciousness raising is our only hope to empower individuals, groups, nations, and the international community to possibly prevent or reverse climate change and at least prepare and adapt to it in as safe and orderly a manner as possible—with the goal of securing a sustainable future for and the well-being of each and every individual person, creature, and habitat, inasmuch as it is possible to do so. Interaction design can help bridge the gap between scientific predictions and notions of certainty and uncertainty on the one hand and public conventional wisdoms that, however well intentioned, may lead to an unsustainable future or inadequate …