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SUMMARY:Rethinking Information and Space in Ubiquitous Computing - Paul Do
 urish\, University of California at Irvine
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CONTACT:Alan Blackwell
DESCRIPTION:The original articulations of "ubiquitous computing" focus on 
 the migration of computation and information off the desktop and into the 
 other spaces of everyday life. Despite this\, ubicomp research remains sur
 prisingly devoid of spatial thinking\, taking both "space" and "informatio
 n" as natural facts. In our recent work at UCI\, we have been attempting t
 o take the spatial nature of ubicomp seriously. In fact\, we would argue t
 hat the advent of ubiquitous computing -- as a technological fact and a so
 cial imaginary -- creates the opportunity to rethink some fundamental issu
 es in the relationship between computation and human action.\n\nIn this ta
 lk\, I'll provide an overview of this work\, paying particular attention t
 o the ways in which both information and spatiality emerge as social and c
 ultural products and to how we are attempting to respond to these conceptu
 al shifts in our design efforts.\n\nPaul Dourish is a Professor in Informa
 tics at UC\nIrvine (with courtesy appointments in Computer Science and in 
 Anthropology.) For the last two years\, he served as Associate Director fo
 r the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technolo
 gy. He teaches in the Informatics program as well as a new interdisciplina
 ry graduate program in Arts\, Computation\, and Engineering. His research 
 interests lie at the intersection of social science and computer science. 
 Most recently\, his research has focused on embodied interaction\, privacy
  and security\, and urban computing. He holds a B.Sc. (hons) in Artificial
  Intelligence and Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh\, and 
 a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College London. Before moving 
 to UCI\, he held research appointments at Xerox PARC\, Apple Computer\, an
 d Rank Xerox EuroPARC.\n
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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