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"The Newkirk Center for Science and Society is pleased to announce the Newkirk Fellowship Award recipients for 2009. The proposals submitted in response to the Newkirk Fellows RFP were reviewed by UCI faculty members associated with the Center. They provided evaluations and commentary based on the extent to which the proposal addressed the general mission of the Newkirk Center for Science and Society and to the extent to which the research proposed was likely to produce results that the Center could share with one or more of our audiences

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Eric Kabisch, School of Information and Computer Science - Datascape

Congratulations to Informatics faculty Paul Dourish and QUT/Melbourne research fellow Christine Satchell on having their paper, "Beyond the User: Use and Non-Use in HCI" accepted to OzCHI 2009.

The paper explores why it might be just as important to think about the ways that people DON'T use computers as the ways that they do.

Get a copy from here: http://www.dourish.com/publications/2009/nonuse-ozchi.pdf

The dark side of social networking - OCRegister.com

"Here’s some advice from Dr. Donald Patterson — director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction at UCI .... about pondering the dark side of social networking."

"Consider how the software will use your location and whether or not you are making yourself vulnerable by letting people know where you are — or where you aren’t — before giving software permission to use your location information."