"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
Urban Computing and Its Discontents at The Architectrueal League NY (14 Dec)
This is a launch event for the Situated Technologies Pamphlet series: Urban Computing and Its Discontents
MobileFest in Brazil (5-9 Dec)
Arte.Mov Festival in Brazil (15-19 Nov)
Panelist at Nokia's Mobile Mash-up Event (1 Nov)
Invited speaker at CCA course from Sudden City (17 Oct)
Dorkbot SF Benefit for Todd Blair (10 Oct)
Todd is a very close friend of mine that suffered a tramatic head injury in an accident after the SRL show in Amsterdam. Please visit the blog we have setup to learn more about Todd Blair and help with his recovery efforts. Please keep him in your prayers.
SRL Robodock show (22 Sept)
Article in Wall Street Journal on the I-Bomb project from 1997 (19 August)
IEEE Pervasive Computing Special Issue on Urban Computing is out (July-Sept 2007)
Keynote talk at Digital Cities 5: Urban Informatics, Locative Media and Mobile Technology in Inner-City Developments at the International Conference on Communities and Technologies (28 June)
Hullabaloo will be shown at Maker Faire (19-20 May)
Keynote talk at Imagination@Lancaster as part of the Social Technologies Summit and Environment 2.0 Summit at Futuresonic 2007 in Manchester UK (11 May)
Lecture at CCA for course on Urban Design (28 March)
Speaker at the Urban Studies Program's Urban Professions Seminar at Stanford University (7 March)
CITRIS Research Exchange Distinguised Lecture (14 Feb)
I'm a co-editor of the IEEE Pervasive Computing Special Issue on Urban Computing (22 Jan Deadline)
Invited Speaker at Architectural League of New York Situated Technologies Symposium
UbiComp 2006 Urban Computing Workshop
Interactive City Summit
ISEA 2006 Interactive City
Urban Networks Exhibition (June-Aug 2006)
