Diving A Digital Future
Congratulations to Informatics Professor Paul Dourish and lab friend Genevieve Bell on having actual real copies of their new book “Diving a Digital Future”! (Amazon)
Posts Tagged ‘book published’
Divining a Digital Future - April 20th, 2011
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Tags: book published, Genevieve Bell, Paul Dourish, ubiquitous computing |
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| Posted: 4/20/11 6:39 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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LUCI affliates’ research on ‘World of Warcraft’ makes national politics - December 22nd, 2010
World of Warcraft
LUCI researchers and other faculty from our Department of Informatics have found themselves in the crosshairs of national politics as described in an article in the O.C. Register:
“Maybe it’s a generation gap thing. But the $3 million that went to UC Irvine researchers to study “Decentralized Virtual Activities and Technologies” has been branded one of the worst wastes of taxpayer dollars of 2010 by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK….
The game is made by Blizzard Entertainment of Irvine, and the researchers are Walt Scacchi, Bonnie Nardi, Richard Taylor, Gloria Mark and Cristina Lopes.”
We’ll link to Bonnie’s response which is being published tomorrow at the University of Michigan Press. But a few things worth noting… video games are a big part of our local economy. Blizzard employs 4600 people. This research has been nominated for best paper awards at CSCW and any of the local faculty can tell you that the NSF isn’t exactly spewing out tax payer money these days.
Walt’s response, filtered by the press is here:
Slam on UCI is ’sign of distinction’ and ‘compliment,’ researcher says
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Tags: article, Bonnie Nardi, book published, China, Crista Lopes, CSCW, gaming, NSF, Richard Taylor, Walt Scacchi |
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| Posted: 12/22/10 10:19 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Greening through IT, a new book by Prof. Tomlinson - March 12th, 2010
Greening Through IT
Informatics Professor Bill Tomlinson has a new book out. From:Calit2@UCI Press Release:
Calit2 academic affiliate Bill Tomlinson, and his new book, “Greening through IT: Information Technology for Environmental Sustainability,” were featured this week on “Tech Therapy,” a popular podcast produced by the Chronicle for Higher Education.
From Amazon:
Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers of complexity. In Greening through IT, Bill Tomlinson investigates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can help us tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Tomlinson describes theoretical, technological, and social aspects of a growing interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, “Green IT,” offering both a human-centered framework for understanding Green IT systems and specific examples and case studies of Green IT in action.
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| Posted: 3/12/10 9:49 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Greening Through IT - October 22nd, 2009
Congratulations to Informatics faculty member Bill Tomlinson on having his book,
‘Greening Through IT’ published by MIT Press.
Photo courtesy of MIT Press
“Environmental issues often span long periods of time, far-flung areas, and labyrinthine layers of complexity. In Greening through IT, Bill Tomlinson investigates how the tools and techniques of information technology (IT) can help us tackle environmental problems at such vast scales. Tomlinson describes theoretical, technological, and social aspects of a growing interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, “Green IT,” offering both a human-centered framework for understanding Green IT systems and specific examples and case studies of Green IT in action.
Tomlinson contrasts the broad ranges of time, space, and complexity against which environmental concerns play out to the relatively narrow horizons of human understanding: it’s hard for us to grasp thousand-year projections of global climatic disruption or our stake in melting icecaps thousands of miles away. IT can bridge the gap between human scales of understanding and environmental scales.
Tomlinson offers many examples of efforts toward sustainability supported by IT—from fishermen in India who eliminated waste by coordinating their activities with mobile phones to the installation of smart meters that optimize electricity use in California households—and offers three detailed studies of specific research projects that he and his colleagues have undertaken: EcoRaft, an interactive museum exhibit to help children learn principles of restoration ecology; Trackulous, a set of web-based tools with which people can chart their own environmental behavior; and GreenScanner, an online system that provides access to environmental-impact reports about consumer products. Taken together, these examples illustrate the significant environmental benefits innovations in information technology can enable.”
Get a copy of this book here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12058
Congrats Bill!
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| Posted: 10/22/09 12:01 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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In Memory of the Dead Media Handbook - October 8th, 2009
Dead Media Handbook
Garnet will be displaying his new book of photos (for sale in the vending machine) in Milan in October.
“Documentation of the book project, “A Collection of Many Problems (In Memory of the Dead Media Handbook)” can be found at http://conceptlab.com/problems/. It is meant as a visual introduction to media archaeology in the spirit of The Dead Media Project.
The bookwork, “A Collection of Many Problems (In Memory of the Dead Media Handbook)” will be on display on a podium in the center of the space. In the space there is also a place for people to write notes and sketches on paper related to the topic of The Dead Media Handbook – a project proposed by author Bruce Sterling in 1995: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Media_Project”
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Tags: art, book published, Bruce Sterling, Garnet Hertz, Italy, Photos, vending machine |
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| Posted: 10/8/09 11:38 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Play, Flex, and Slop: Sociality and Intentionality - March 27th, 2008
Photo courtesy of paulworthington
Congratulations to Professor Paul Dourish on having a book chapter published:
Dourish, P. 2008. Play, Flex, and Slop: Sociality and Intentionality. In Erickson and McDonald (eds), HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works that have Influenced the HCI Community, 305-308. MIT Press.
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| Posted: 3/27/08 2:13 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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