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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. 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.
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.
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."