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January 31, 2007
Congratulations Amanda!
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Congratulations to Amanda on having a workshop paper accepted at CHI:
Transnational Thais: Global Mobilities, Cell Phones, And Collaboration |
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January 30, 2007
Congratulations Don!
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Congratulations to Don on having a paper accepted for publication in AIJ! L. Liao, D. J. Patterson, D. Fox, and H. Kautz, “Learning and inferring transportation routines,” Artificial Intelligence, vol. accepted for publication, 2007. |
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January 26, 2007
Ubicomp reimagined
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One of the themes of a couple recent papers, (Moving On from Weiser's Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences by Yvonne Rogers and Yesterday's Tomorrows:Notes on Ubiquitous Computing's Dominant Vision) is the way in which Weiser's original vision isn't panning on the way that it was predicted. The response is to reframe the goal of ubicomp from calm, shiny and homogenous to engaging, messy, and heterogeneous. The new graphic from Eboy on the left is a visual reminder of the way things are playing out. It is a technological Tower of Babel built on a mess of incompatibility. Click on the image for better resolution. |
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January 25, 2007
Ambient Bridge Lighting
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From: Clyde Waterfront regeneration : urban renewal and development of Glasgow's River Clyde "This major public art commission on the River Clyde complements the lighting of other bridges. The work was carried out under Glasgow City Council's lighting strategy which aims to enhance the environment by using light innovatively. Colour changing lights highlight the underside of the elegant central span of the Kingston Bridge and reflect in the water. Sequencing is linked to traffic patterns on the bridge and tide levels." |
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January 24, 2007
Notes on the Techno-Spiritual
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Following up on the UBICOMP 290 discussion of Dr. Bell's techno-spiritual paper, "No more SMS from Jesus"... is this article that Eric B. alerts me to: Grief, comfort meet on MySpace - Los Angeles Times "...BUT the grieving on MySpace is unplanned — the dead person's page is a frozen moment, showing when they last logged on, their favorite books and movies, whether they were in a relationship, and photos of their best friends. After their death, their friends post messages to the departed that are akin to text messages between high school pals, stream-of-consciousness blurbs filled with slang, misspellings and abbreviations. The messages are sorrowful and sweet, angry and funny, routine and heartbreaking. They include reminiscences, pleas to watch over them, and updates on events the dead friend has missed. " |
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Google NY Internships
A limited number of summer internships and post-doctoral research positions are available at Google Research, New York. Preference will be given to candidates in the areas of large-scale machine learning and statistical modeling, computer vision, natural language processing, information retrieval, and statistics. However, outstanding candidates in all areas will be considered.
We seek motivated and enthusiastic colleagues with a solid research agenda and a demonstrated ability to generate new ideas and innovate. The candidates will have the opportunity to work closely with many talented researchers and engineers at Google, and have access to Google's unique computing infrastructure. The candidates will be expected to produce high-quality research and will be encouraged to publish in top conferences and journals in their areas of expertise.
Summer Internship:
Applicants must
* have strong theoretical and analytical foundations;
* be enrolled in a Ph.D. program;
* have good programming skills.
The internship is planned for the summer of 2007. A minimum of 12 weeks is required.
Post-Doctoral Research:
Applicants must
* have strong theoretical and analytical foundations, and an excellent publication record;
* hold a Ph.D. or be in the process of finishing a Ph.D.;
* have good programming skills.
The position is for a minimum of one year, with the possibility of extension for a second year. The preferred starting date is September, 2007;
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae (including a list of publications) and contact information for two references who can comment on the applicant's research potential, one of whom should be the dissertation advisor, to apply-research-ny@google.com. Application deadline is February 24, 2007. Post-Doctoral applicants should also include a research statement.
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January 23, 2007
Rapid Fabrication of Furniture in Sweden
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Swedish design group FRONT, used/uses motion capture and rapid fabrication to create furniture from gestures. The videos on their site are missing, and it seems like this would have some problems in the details, but the idea is cool. |
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January 22, 2007
LUCI is now a Bren School Center!
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Great news! LUCI has been officially recognized as a Bren School Center. This means that we have official administrative standing in the school, receive some support for seeding research work, and have a director, Professor Lopes! |
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Catching the Bus: Studying People and Practice at Intel
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Ken Anderson discusses Intel's work at understanding technology in transitional spaces. There is a podcast attached to this entry. Get it through http by clicking here. |
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January 19, 2007
Catching the Bus: Studying People and Practice at Intel
Here is the file that you need to open with Quicktime to watch this talk broadcast live. If you do it, please leave a comment with your experience. We don't know how well it works yet.
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Information from LUCI
The LUCI lab communicates with the world through four electronic formats:
- This blog and its associated RSS feed: http://luci.ics.uci.edu/blog/index.rdf
- Through an iTunes podcasting "channel" which you can subscribe to in the iTunes music store. Search for "LUCI" or click here to subscribe. This channel primarily hosts archived content from our seminars.
- Through a mailing list that is broad and includes many friends around the world: https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/luci
- Through a mailing list that is for people with an interest in the physical LUCI lab in the new Bren Hall - this doesn't mean you necessarily have a desk there, but it does mean you are nearby physically: https://mailman.ics.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/luci-lab
Depending on what you are interested in, and how you receive information one or more of this sites might need to be added to your daily dose of information. Here's to effectively communicating with you in the future!
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January 18, 2007
Catching the Bus: Studying People and Practice at Intel
We are going to try and broadcast as well as archive this talk. If you want to watch it you'll need a QuickTime player. We'll post the connection information in an .spd file to this blog about 15 minutes before the presentation.
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Congratulations Johanna!
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Congratulations to Johanna on passing her advancement to candidacy exam based on her work with Nimio. |
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January 17, 2007
Rapid Fabrication of Homes in Los Angeles
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Robo-builder threatens the brickie - Newspaper Edition - Times Online "The robots are rigged to a metal frame, enabling them to shuttle in three dimensions and assemble the structure of the house layer by layer. The sole foreman on site operates a computer programmed with the designer’s plans. The researchers in Los Angeles claim their robot will be able to build the shell of a house in 24 hours. “Compared to a conventional house, the speed of construction will be increased 200-fold and the building costs will be reduced to a fifth of what they are today,” said Khoshnevis." |
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January 16, 2007
Catching the Bus: Studying People and Practice at Intel
The speaker for Friday's Informatics Seminar is Ken Anderson from Intel Research.
People and Practices Research is a group within Intel Research that engages the techniques of social science and design in order to develop a deep understanding of how people live and work. PAPR undertakes a wide range of projects in collaboration with universities, Intel business groups, and other parts of Intel Research. In this talk, I'll give a flavor of our work by discussing current research into the problems of mobility and spatiality in urban and transnational settings, which is being carried out in support of ongoing interests in mobile and ubiquitous computing.
The Informatics Seminar is held on Friday at 3:00pm in ICS2 136, followed by a social hour at 4:00pm. See you there.
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January 15, 2007
Congratulations Paul
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Congratulations to these Informatics students and faculty for having the following papers accepted for publication: Boehner, K., Vertesi, J., Sengers, P., and Dourish, P. 2007. How HCI Interprets the Probes. Proc. ACM Conf. Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2007 (San Jose, CA). |
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January 13, 2007
PARC Internships
REMINDER: Applications due February 15, 2007
As one of the most innovative and prolific research laboratories in the U.S., Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) offers its interns a truly exceptional research and work experience.
PARC-the birthplace of laser printing, Ethernet, the graphical user interface (GUI), and ubiquitous computing-has a unique Multidisciplinary culture spanning disciplines within physical, computational, and Social sciences.
Graduate interns are fully integrated into PARC's research activities and have the opportunity to receive author credits on publications. Undergraduate interns get to choose which projects they want to work on.
MBA interns work directly with research teams and technology commercialization managers to move technologies through all stages of the technology pipeline. Interns are also visibly involved in the broader PARC community through poster sessions, forums, presentations, lab meetings, and so on.
Past interns have overwhelmingly responded that their PARC experiences were some of "the best experiences of my life, personally as well as professionally".
Click below to apply and be a part of this amazing experience: http://www.parc.com/contact/employment/intern/
Print/ post/share the flyer: http://www.parc.com/contact/employment/parcInternship2007.pdf
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January 12, 2007
Yahoo! Research Internships
I am pleased to announce that Yahoo! Research will be accepting graduate student internship applications for Summer 2007. Accepted MS/PhD students will have the opportunity to work at one of our three research labs (Silicon Valley, Southern California, and New York), collaborating with Yahoo!’s top scientists. We expect that a summer internship at Yahoo! will be challenging and intellectually stimulating, but we also strive to make it a fun experience for our interns. Our 2006 program was a big success and we are looking forward to a bigger and better program in 2007.
Yahoo! Research has very active research programs in search (information retrieval, Web analysis, graph theory, data mining, and recommender systems), machine learning, community systems (large-scale databases and distributed systems), media experiences and design, and microeconomics, and we strongly encourage students working in any of the above areas to apply. Students at Yahoo! Research not only benefit from working side-by-side with top researchers in their fields, but also from accessing Yahoo!’s unique, large-scale datasets to test their hypotheses and systems.
I would appreciate it if you could inform your faculty and graduate students about our summer internship program. Note that our application deadline is February 15, 2007, and candidates can apply at http://research.yahoo.com/static_jobs under the Research Interns section at the bottom of the page. The internships typically begin in May or June and run for three months, and we will notify the candidates by March 15, 2007 if they are offered the internships. If you have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. - Ron Brachman
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Congratulations Sharon!
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Congratulations to these Informatics students for having the following paper accepted for publication: Sharon Ding and her collaborators at IBM for "An Empirical Study of the Use of Visually Enhanced VoIP Audio Conferencing: The Case of Rendezvous" in CHI 2007 |
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January 9, 2007
Creativity and the design of socio-technical processes
[Informatics-seminar] Friday Informatics Seminar: Thomas Herrmann, "Creativity and the design of socio-technical processes", 01/12/07 at 3:00pm in ICS2 136While process management strategies mainly focus on incremental improvement and workflow management support, the design perspective includes possibilities of fundamental change and all kinds of IT- based support for collaborative processes. We focus on building the bridge between technology development and usage with a method of systematic communication facilitation – the socio-technical walkthrough (STWT). It is run in participatory workshops where software-engineers and other stakeholders are brought together. The STWT employs a semi-structured modelling method to continuously visualize the proposed solutions with diagrams as well as their evolution. In a controlled experiment with 24 students, the combination of systematic facilitation and diagrams has proved as more successful than classical methods (text on cards, pin boards, or flipcharts). Our observations in several practical cases reveal limits and potentials with respect to the enhancement of creativity. A variety of factors such as different cognitive abilities, motivation, rhythms, communication behaviour, dealing with incompleteness, varying granularity of details etc. are relevant to understand the effects on the divergence and convergence of ideas in a design workshop. It is discussed how we can support the emergence of new choices (instead of only making choices) for socio-technical solutions of collaborative work processes.
Thomas Herrmann (http://www.imtm-iaw.rub.de/personenund/personen/th/ index.html) is a professor of Information and Technology Management at the Institute of Applied Work Science (IAW), University of Bochum, Germany since 2004, and a fellow of the Electrical Engineering Department. Current research interests include design methods for socio-technical systems in the areas of knowledge management, (work-) process management, computer supported collaborative learning, and concepts of social software for innovation support.
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January 8, 2007
Number 3 in Information Sciences
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University of California, Irvine ties with Carnegie Mellon for third place in the Chronicle of Higher Education's list of top Information Science schools. Click on the image on the left for more info from CHE. As with any ranking if you actually study the numbers, lots of questions come to mind, like, who are the 67 faculty that they are counting? What are the publications that count in the citation scores? What other schools at UCI are included in "Information Sciences" besides ICS? Nevertheless, yea for us! We are in third place |
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