ABOUT CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS OUTLINE THE WORKSHOP
Date: September 21, 2008
Venue: UbiComp 2008, Seoul, Korea
Submission Deadline: Closed (If you still would like to attend, email us).
Computing technology now pervades those moments of our day when we move through our cities. Mobile phones, music players, vending machines, contact-less payment systems and RFID-enabled turnstiles are de rigueur on our daily journeys. This workshop aims to examine these augmented journeys, to reflect on the public, semi-public and private technologies available to us in them, and to speculate on what innovations might be to come. Taking as our starting point cities such as Seoul, we aim to take seriously the developments in mobile technology as well as the advancements in autonomous machinery and how these mesh with our urban journeys.
Through collaborative fieldwork, group discussion and a hands-on design brainstorming session, the workshop's empirical focus will be directed towards producing 4 envisagements that either speculate and/or critically reflect on technological futures.
Submissions should be sent to: johannab@ics.uci.edu.
About the Organizers:
Arianna Bassoli is a PhD student in the Information Systems and Innovation Group at the London School of Economics. Her interests lie in interaction design research, urban computing and how it can be informed by a situated understanding of people's everyday life. She has experience in the design of proximity-based and mobile applications that allow people to exchange digital resources in various everyday occasions.
Johanna Brewer is a PhD student in the Informatics department at the University of California, Irvine working with Paul Dourish. Her thesis is focused on urban computing, particularly in the design of social technologies. Her research centers around how an examination of mobility in urban spaces, specifically the London Underground and the Orange County bus, might help to inform these designs.
Alex Taylor is a member of the Socio-Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. He has undertaken investigations into a range of routine aspects of everyday life. For instance, he's had an unhealthy preoccupation with hoarding, dirt, clutter and similar seemingly banal subject matter. Most recently he has begun obsessing over robots and other curious 'thinking' machines.