"Water is the driving force of all nature."
- Leonardo Da Vinci
Living Environments Lab work featured in Toward the Sentient City curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York at The Urban Center, New York City (17 Sep – 7 Nov 2009)
Keynote talk at UIST 2009 in Vancover, B.C. (Slides) (7 October 2009)
Invited Talk at Conference on Global Cohorts and Consortia (17-19 June 2009) in Banff, Alberta, Canada
Final Critique for Basic Interaction Design course in HCII at CMU (5 & 7 May 2009)
Workshop at CHI 2009 DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization (5 April 2009)
Talk at ETech the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on Enabling Citizen Science (11 March 2009)
Opponent for Maria Håkansson PhD thesis defence "Playing with Context: Explicit and Implicit Interaction in Mobile Media Applications" in Man-Machine Interaction at Stockholm University (26 Feb 2009)
Presentation at Green Drinks Pittsburgh (16 January 2009)
Speaking at Dorkbot Pittsburgh on 23 Oct 7pm at BrilloBox
NEWS FLASH: I've accepted a faculty position at Carnegie Mellon University's prestigious Human-Computer Interaction Institute and will be relocating there in September 2008! I'll also be starting a new lab there exploring the environment and sustainibility
Living Environments Lab - A new collaborative research laboratory focusing on the critical intersection of
human life, our living planet, and technology
Research on Citizen Science
My DIY Manifesto: A Call to UbiComp Researchers
Workshop Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism at UbiComp 2008 (21 September)
Keynote at International Symposium on Network Sensing, Urban Lives, and Human Probes (16 June)
UC Berkeley Big Bang: New Media Symposium and Art Festival (1-3 June 2008)
New Book Chapter: Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism by Eric Paulos, R.J. Honicky, and Ben Hooker in great new Urban Computing Themed Book: Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City.
Our work featured in Wireless Technology for Social Change: Trends in NGO Mobile Use, United Nations Foundataion Publication, May 2008
VAPOR show at Southern Exposure (14 March Opening) 14 Mar - 3 May 2008 and VAPOR Symposium (19 April)
Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability
Workshop I am co-organizing to be held at the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2008
May 19-22, Sydney, Australia
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