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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 our interdisciplinary graudate 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; a faculty affiliate of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs; and on the advisory board of the Center for Ethnography. (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.
Sept 24, 2008
I'm now back from sabbatical and various travel, most recently the British HCI conference, where I was giving the closing keynote; I'm now affixed to my UCI hamster-wheel for Fall quarter, preparing classes, supervising students, and writing grants. The latest good news is that I received two grants under the NSF's Virtual Organizations as Sociotechnical Systems program: one, with Charlotte Lee, looking at expertise sharing in cyberinfrastructure, and one, with Janet Vertesi, looking at the social organization of unmanned space science projects. This means that Janet will be joining me as a postdoc in the new year, which will be great. My new classes are almost prepared, and the schedules have been posted under teaching. Now to finish my two book projects!
June 13, 2008
I am still happily on sabbatical in San Francisco. However, I'll move back to Southern California this summer. I will be teaching INFX 231 (Human-Computer Interaction) and INFX 261 (Social Analysis of Information Systems) in Fall 08. Class pages for these aren't ready yet but should be available (under "teaching") within the next month.
June 10, 2008
I'm trialling a whole new web design, with the hope that it will replace both my "home" and professional pages so that I only have one out-of-date website at a time, rather than two (or more.)