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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.
At UCI, 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 UC Game Culture and Technology Lab; 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. 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.
June 25, 2009
The academic year is over, and a busy summer is beginning, including a month in Australia -- in Darwin and Arnhemland with Michael Christie and crew from CDU, and then in Melbourne with friends from the Interaction Design Group at the University of Melbourne. A couple of new papers -- one for Interact and one for Ubicomp -- should be online soon; hopefully, this summer will also give me time to finish up a number of half-completed pieces of work. The nicest recent news is that Genevieve and I have finished the first full draft of our new book, tentatively titled "Technocultural Tales: Social and Cultural Accounts of Ubiquitous Computing."
Dec 29, 2008
End-of-year updates: I had a very enjoyable time in Australia, where I gave the opening keynote talk at the OzCHI conference and at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Sadly (for us), Charlotte Lee has moved to take up a new position as a faculty member at the University of Washington; and early in the New Year, Janet Vertesi will be joining my group as a postdoc. A couple of papers have finally made it to print, and a couple more have emerged as drafts; they'll be posted online as soon as they are a little more presentable. And one of the books is very very nearly done...