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I am Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and in Anthropology. In addition to our Informatics program, I also teach in (and currently direct) our interdisciplinary graduate program in Arts, Computation, and Engineering (ACE). My research lies at the intersection of computer science and social science, with a particular interest in ubiquitous and mobile computing and the practices surrounding new media.
If you are interested in coming to do research in HCI at UCI, you should check this site.
In addition to my regular faculty appointments, I am a member of the divisional council of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology; co-conspirator in the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction; a member of the Center for Cyber-Security and Privacy, the Institute for Software Research, the Center for Organizational Research, and the Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds; a faculty associate of the Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, and the Center for Biomedical Informatics; and a member of the advisory board of the Center for Ethnography and the Institute for Money, Technology, and Financial Inclusion, and a member of the executive board of the UC-wide Pacific Rim Research Program. Along with Bill Maurer, I coordinate the People and Practices PAPR@UCI initiative. (Phew.)
According to an anonymous student reviewer, I am "by far the most eccentric professor in ICS," which I choose to take as a compliment. The competition for "most eccentric" is pretty tough around here. My Erdos Number is 3.
August 22, 2010
It has been an eventful summer so far, and it isn't over yet. I'm just back from a trip to Aarhus, Denmark, to spend some time with colleagues in the Computer Science department there, and to present a paper on HCI and sustainability and participate in the DIS 2010 conference. Meantime, Lilly was in Copenhagen at the same time to present another paper there at ICIC 2010, which was chosen as the best paper at the conference! Meantime, we have also had three new NSF grants awarded -- one on sustainability and social networks, one on intercultural collaboration and design, and one on death and digital media.
June 19, 2010
The end of the academic year was crazy, as usual. This summer I'm going to be largely here in Southern California, unusually, since I have a number of new research projects starting, including one on environmental sustainability and online social movements. The book draft -- now titled "Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing" was recently shipped off to MIT Press to enter the production process. Now perhaps I'll be able to get back to work on the other book project.
November 3, 2009
I'm just back from an extended trip, first to London for Arianna Bassoli's successful PhD examination (three cheers for Dr Bassoli!) and then to DC for the 4S conference, which was, as ever, hectic, intriguing, and fun. I'm home for three weeks before going back to Australia to present the paper on not using computers that Christine and I wrote for OzCHI.