Garnet Hertz, our local Artist-in-Residence, Researcher, etc…. etc… is featured in this video put out by the ICS communications department. Yay Toy Hacking!
Posts Tagged ‘workshop’
Toy Hacking DIY Workshop Video - May 17th, 2013
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| Posted: 5/17/13 12:18 am UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Values in Design in the O.C. Register - August 22nd, 2012
Dr. Garnet Hertz, center, helps students Jes Koepfler, from the University of Maryland, left, and Anthony Hoffman of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee build an arduino, an open source single board micro controller at a workshop at UCI for doctoral students to build projects focused on a values-based approach to technology design. by SAM GANGWER, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
The Values in Design Lab, founded by Informatics faculty members, is hosting a workshop this week. The O.C. Register covered it in an article posted today:
“The Values In Design lab launched earlier this year at UCI brings together researchers from computer science, engineering and the humanities in an effort to devise ways to design technology for the future that is responsible and inclusive, in turn enabling organizations to create better relationships with their users later on. Researchers in the lab focus on building values like privacy, community, trust, dignity, security, respect and freedom from bias into future technological systems and this week 36 doctoral students from North America and Europe are at UCI working with faculty in a weeklong workshop on the subject.”
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“How do we get more participation and more breadth of participation in our design work?” asked Bowker. “We all need to become designers.”
Jed, apparently the most mediagenic member of our lab, is liberally quoted. :)
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Tags: arduino, article, Cory Knobel, design, Garnet Hertz, Geoff Bowker, Jed Brubaker, LUCI, Values in Design, workshop |
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| Posted: 8/22/12 5:04 pm UTC by admin Make the First Comment | |
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Computing Research for Sustainability - June 29th, 2012
LUCI friend, UCLA Prof. Deborah Estrin, chairs The National Academies’ Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. They just released a new report titled, “Computing Research for Sustainability”. From the press release:
“The report stresses that computer science research in sustainability must be an interdisciplinary effort, with experts in the various fields of sustainability being equal partners in research. To further that end, undergraduate and graduate education in computer sciences should provide experience across disciplinary boundaries. Programs should include tracks that offer course work in areas such as life-cycle analysis, agriculture, ecology, natural resource management, economics, and urban planning.” [citation]
Then in the report itself:
“This report emphasizes opportunities for research, in addition to the data and privacy challenges mentioned earlier, on human-centered systems both at the individual level and beyond (at the organizational and societal levels). Examples of such research areas include visualization and user-interaction design for comprehensibility, transparency, legitimation, deliberation, and participation; devices and dashboards for individuals and institutions; expanding the understanding of human behaviors, empowering people to measure, argue for, and change what is happening; and education.” [page 79 of the report]
It sounds like Informatics to me!
An interesting LUCI trivia point is that this report directly references a LUCI Tech Report, “Print This Paper, Kill A Tree: Environmental Sustainability as a Research Topic for Human-Computer Interaction” by it’s number LUCI-2009-004. I would guess that this is the highest profile publication to ever do that. Woot!
Update: It turns out that Bill Tomlinson was a panelist during the information gathering stage for this report at the Workshop on Innovation in Computing and Information Technology for Sustainability held at the National Academies in 2010. He was also a reviewer of the document.
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Tags: Bill Tomlinson, Deborah Estrin, LUCI, paper, Paul Dourish, press, research, sustainability, workshop |
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| Posted: 6/29/12 4:35 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Bridging Clinical and Non-clinical Health Practices: Opportunities and Challenges - February 21st, 2012
Photo courtesy of paulworthington
Congratulations to LUCI faculty Yunan Chen, post-doc Karen Cheng and grad students Sun Young Park on having their workshop proposal titled, “Bridging Clinical and Non-clinical Health Practices: Opportunities and Challenges” accepted to the CHI 2012 program.
There has been a growing interest in the HCI community to study Health, with particular focus in understanding healthcare practices and designing technologies to support and to enhance these practices. A majority of current health studies in HCI have focused on either clinical settings, such as hospitals and clinics, or non-clinical spaces, like patients’ homes and senior centers. Yet, there has been little work investigating how patient care in clinical and non- clinical settings connect with each other. Building on the illness trajectory concept, this workshop aims to explore the interplay between, and the challenges and opportunities in designing healthcare technologies for bridging the clinical and the non-clinical settings, as well as their impact on the continuum of patient care
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Tags: Health Care, Karen Cheng, Medical Informatics, Sun Young Park, workshop, Yunan Chen |
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| Posted: 2/21/12 7:53 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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LUCI reunion at Fudan University - September 20th, 2011
Paul sent this picture from a workshop at Fudan University in China. I recognize 4 LUCI-labbers (former or current), Charlotte Lee, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Paul Dourish and Silvia Lindtner.
Workshop at Fudan University
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Tags: Charlotte Lee, China, LUCI, Paul Dourish, Sharon Xianghua Ding, Silvia Lindtner, workshop |
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| Posted: 9/20/11 8:36 am UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Hackerspace hosts inaugural Arduino workshop - May 11th, 2011
Arduino Workshop
Last night the LUCI lab had a terrific turnout for an Arduino hacking workshop. About 20 people including undergraduates, graduate students, researchers and faculty turned out to learn how to program this popular microcontroller. The basic goal of the workshop was for everyone to create a device which measured an input (light, sound, pressure) and do something in response (beep, light up, tweet, etc.). There was a little bit of trepidation at first as most of the participants had to trade their software coding skills for wires and breadboards, but once the pizza arrived everything got easier.
This workshop was run by undergraduate student Vahan Hartooni and sponsored by the LUCI lab’s “hackerspace”, which is a new direction that we are undertaking as a result of a Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP) grant. The grant program is a collaboration between the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) with the following aspirations:
“Under the personal guidance of UCI faculty co-mentors, students will gain first-hand experience and training in state-of-the-art facilities and techniques. This program is designed to help students develop the multidisciplinary skills and knowledge that will propel them into graduate studies or careers in fields that explore the connections between different concentrations.Participants will demonstrate the results of their work at the UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium in May and at additional demonstration events sponsored by Calit2.”
This grant which was spearheaded by undergraduate students (including Vahan Hartooni and Nick LaJeunesse) and subsequently helped along with a little grant writing experience by Informatics faculty member Don Patterson, Informatics Research Scientist/Artist-in-Residence Garnet Hertz and Film & Media Studies faculty member Peter Krapp, was instrumental in last night’s program.
For more information about how you can hack, or about upcoming programs, contact the space at hackerspace@ics.uci.edu.
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Tags: arduino, art, CalIT2, collaboration, design, Donald J. Patterson, fun, Garnet Hertz, hacking, LUCI, Peter Krapp, Photos, video, workshop |
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| Posted: 5/11/11 4:58 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Circuit Bending Workshop for T.A.C.O Team Mentors - February 1st, 2011
In the last year, Garnet developed a 63-page guidebook as a curriculum aide for students to learn “circuit bending” – the hand-modifying of battery-powered children’s toys to build custom electronic instruments (Ghazala, 2004). His goal was to instruct individuals with no prior experience in computing or engineering in the fundamentals of electronics.
To test this curriculum guide, Garnet Hertz led a one-day workshop in January 2010 at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California that was a resounding success: although many had no experience with electronics, 90% were able to successfully produce their own custom electronic device from scrap materials in under four hours through our curriculum. Due to this success, the workshop was also given at the Institute for Multimedia Literacy in the School of Cinematic Arts at USC in August 2010.
We believe the combination of inexpensive and familiar materials, low technological requirements, a clearly designed curriculum and guidebook, and a sensitivity to the social topic of environmental waste have contributed to the strong success of this initiative.
More info.
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Tags: Art Center College of Design, circuit bending, Garnet Hertz, USC, workshop |
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| Posted: 2/1/11 1:34 am UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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“Hi Kiosk! Help me plz. Performative interactions in a restaurant” - September 14th, 2010
Photo courtesy of paulworthington
Congratulations to Informatics grad student, Vrishti Gulati and Informatics faculty member Bonnie Nardi on having their paper, “Hi Kiosk! Help me plz. Performative interactions in a restaurant.”, accepted to the Ubicomp 2010- Designing for Performative Interactions in Public Spaces Workshop
Abstract:The paper explores issues of performance and identity in interactions with a self service kiosk in a fast food restaurant. This is studied in context of a youth populated site-a fast food restaurant at a University Campus. I conducted ethnography in a Jack in the Box restaurant, a popular American chain. The focus is looking at performative aspects in social and public settings. All interactions with the kiosk—the choice of using it to order food, glances, playful interactions, and looks when others are using it— are viewed as exhibits of performance. Even non-interactions and ignorance of the kiosk display an aspect of performance.
Congratulations Vrishti and Bonnie!
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Tags: Bonnie Nardi, design, interface, Jack in the Box, kiosk, paper published, ubiquitous computing, Vrishti Gulati, workshop |
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| Posted: 9/14/10 11:57 pm UTC by djp3 Add Your Comment | |
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Photos from “Workshop of the Californias” - September 6th, 2010
Chateau Camou
Bill Griswold (from UCSD) posted some terrific photographs from our recent UCI/UCSD/UABC Workshop of the Californias in Mexico. If you didn’t have a chance to go, you missed out on a fun, informative trip. This is the second Southern California meetup that we have had recently and it seems to be turning into something promising. Thanks to Profs. Monica Tentori and Gillian Hayes for organizing.
More photos here.
Most of the attendees
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Tags: Bill Griswold, fun, Gillian R. Hayes, Mexican food, Monica Tentori, Photos, UABC, UCI, UCSD, workshop |
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| Posted: 9/6/10 8:24 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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Status Quo: Micro-presence in an always online world - April 8th, 2009
This is an audio podcast of a talk given by Prof. Don Patterson on 4/8/2009 at the University of California Humanities Research Institute as part of the Workshop on Networking Knowledge
“The Workshop on Networking Knowledge is a joint initiative by UCHRI, the MacArthur Research Hub on Digital Media and Learning, and the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion. The Workshop will host ongoing meetings to address common themes in the impact of digital technology, new media, and networking practices on knowledge formation, circulation, transformation, and their implications across various domains. Workshops will serve as a site for discussions of significant current and emerging work across these areas of interest.
Audio and Slides
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Tags: Donald J. Patterson, podcast, social networks, UCHRI, workshop |
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| Posted: 4/8/09 2:43 pm UTC by djp3 Make the First Comment | |
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