Eric Paulos

Eric Paulos
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Center for New Media

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

School of Information

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Video art is a sub-genre of homemade video.            - Vito Acconci

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

For the most complete and accurate listing please see my curriculum vitæ.

Book Chapters:

The Rise of the Expert Amateur: Citizen Science and Micro-Volunteerism
Eric Paulos, Eric Paulos, Sunyoung Kim, Stacey Kuznetsov
in From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen: Urban Informatics, Social Media, Ubiquitous Computing, and Mobile Technology to Support Citizen Engagement.
Edited by: Foth, M., Forlano, L., Satchell, C., & Gibbs, M.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2011 (in press)

Citizen Science: Enabling Participatory Urbanism
Eric Paulos, R.J. Honicky, and Ben Hooker
in Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City.
Edited by Marcus Foth
Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, IGI Global, 2008

Mobile Persuasion for Everyday Behavior Change
in Mobile Persuasion: Perspectives on the Future of Influence
Sunny Consolvo, Eric Paulos, and Ian Smith
Edited by B.J Fogg, 2007

Personal Tele-embodiment: Reconstructing the Body for Online Interaction
Eric Paulos and John Canny
in The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemonogy on the Internet,
Edited by Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, 2000.

Personal Tele-embodiment
Eric Paulos and John Canny
in Beyond Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots,
Edited by Roland Siegwart and Ken Goldberg, MIT Press, 2001

Conference, Workshop, Poster, and Journal Papers:


2012:

Sharing Technolgies (under review)
James Pierce, Jodi Forlizzi, and Eric Paulos
UbiComp, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2012

Beyond Function: Designing Forms for Public Spaces (under review)
Stacey Kuznetsov, Sarah Reeder, Haakon Faste, and Eric Paulos
UbiComp, Pittsburgh, PA, September 2012

At the seams: DIYbio and opportunities for HCI
Stacey Kuznetsov, Alex Taylor, Nick Villar, Time Regan, and Eric Paulos
ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012

The Local Energy Indicator: Designing for Wind and Solar Energy Systems in the Home
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012

Designing Everyday Technologies with Human-Power and Interactive Microgeneration
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012

(DIY)biology and Opportunities for HCI
Stacey Kuznetsov, Alex Taylor, Eric Paulos, Carl DiSalvo, and Tad Hirsch
Workshop at ACM DIS, Newcastle, UK, June 2012

Beyond Energy Monitors: Interaction, Energy, and Emerging Energy Systems
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Austin, TX., May 2012

TimeBlocks: “Mom, can I have another block of time?”
Eiji Hayashi, Martina A Rau, Zhe Han Neo, Nastasha Tan, Sriram Ramasubramanian, and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Austin, TX., May 2012

Undesigning Technology: Considering the Negation of Design by Design
James Pierce
ACM SIGCHI, Austin, TX., May 2012

Sustainably Unpersuaded: How Persuasion Narrows Our Vision of Sustainability
Hrönn Brynjarsdóttir, Maria Håkansson, James Pierce, Eric P. S. Baumer, Carl DiSalvo
ACM SIGCHI, Austin, TX., May 2012

You Amateur!
Eric Paulos
ACM Interactions, Volume 19 Issue 1,
January + February 2012. ACM Press, New York, NY.


2011:

Nurturing Natural Sensors (Best Paper Award)
Stacey Kuznetsov, William Odom, James Pierce, Eric Paulos
Ubiquitous Computing Conference, September 2011

Red Balloon, Green Balloon, Sensors in the Sky
Stacey Kuznetsov, George Noel Davis, Eric Paulos, Mark Gross, Jian Chiu Cheung
Ubiquitous Computing Conference, September 2011

Second-Hand Interactions: Investigating Re-acquisition and Dis-possession Practices around Domestic Possessions
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011

A Phenomenology of Human-Electricity Relations
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011

Practices in the Creative Reuse of e-Waste
Sunyoung Kim and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011

Creek Watch: Pairing Usefulness and Usability for Successful Citizen Science
Sunyoung Kim, Christine Robson, Thomas Zimmerman, and Jeff Pierce
ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011

Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe Bombe: Challenges to Urban Authoring and Participatory Sensing
Stacey Kuznetsov, George Noel Davis, Jian Chiu Cheung, and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011

Breaking Boundaries: Strategies for mentoring through Textile Computing Workshops
Stacey Kuznetsov, C. Kute, L Trutoiu, Iris Howley, Dan Siewiorek, and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011

HCI, Politics and the City: Engaging with Urban Grassroots Movements forReflection and Action (workshop website)
Stacey Kuznetsov, William Odom, Eric Paulos, Carl DiSalvo, Vicki Moulder, and Ron Wakkary
Workshop at ACM SIGCHI, Vancouver, B.C., May 2011

Everyday Practice and Sustainable HCI: Understanding and Learning from Cultures of (Un)Sustainability (workshop website)
James Pierce, Hrönn Brynjarsdóttir, Phoebe Sengers, Yolande Strengers

Coshaping Sustainable Technologies and Everyday Social Practices:
How Emerging Infrastructural Technologies and Consumer Applications Can Mutually Inform Sustainable Energy Systems
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
Engineering Sustainability 2011: Innovation and the Triple Bottom Line Pittsburgh, USA, April 2011

Citizen Energy: Towards Populist Interactive Micro-Energy Production
Eric Paulos and James Pierce
Hawaii International Conference on System Science (HICSS) Kauai, USA, 2011

 


2010:

Re-designing Everyday Interactions, Relationships, and Practices with Energy
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change (BECC), Sacramento, USA, November 2010

 

Rise of the Expert Amateur: DIY Projects, Communities, and Cultures
Stacey Kuznetsov and Eric Paulos
ACM NordiCHI, Reykjavík, Iceland, October 2010

Designing for Emotional Attachment to Energy (poster)
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
Design and Emotion, Chicago, USA, October 2010

Understanding Conflict Between Landlords and Tenants: Implications for Energy Sensing and Feedback
Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, Eric Paulos
UbiComp, September 2010

Materializing Energy
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
ACM DIS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010

Participatory Sensing in Public Spaces: Activating Urban Surfaces with Sensor Probes
Stacey Kuznetsov, Eric Paulos
ACM DIS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010

WallBots: Interactive Wall-Crawling Robots In the Hands of Public Artists and Political Activists
Stacey Kuznetsov, Eric Paulos, and Mark Gross
ACM DIS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010

Some Considerations on the (in)effectiveness of Residential Energy Feedback Systems for Interaction Design and HCI Energy
James Pierce, Chloe Fan, Derek Lomas, Gabi Marcu, and Eric Paulos
ACM DIS, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2010

UpStream: Motivating Water Conservation with Low-Cost Water Flow Sensing and Persuasive Displays
Stacey Kuznetsov and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010

Home, Habits, and Energy: Deconstructing Domestic Interactions and Energy Consumptions
James Pierce, Diane Schiano, and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010

inAir: Sharing Indoor Air Quality Measurements and Visualizations
Sunyoung Kim and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010

UpStream: Motivating Water Conservation with Low-Cost Water Flow Sensing and Persuasive Displays
Stacey Kuznetsov and Eric Paulos
ACM SIGCHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010

Materializing Energy in Everyday Life
James Pierce and Eric Paulos
Workshop position paper for the Examining Appropriation, Re-use, and Maintenance for Sustainability at
ACM SIGCHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010

Personal, Public: Using DIY to explore citizen-led efforts in urban computing
Solomon Bisker, Mark Gross, Donald Carter, Eric Paulos, Stacey Kuznetsov
Work In Progress paper
ACM SIGCHI, Atlanta, USA, April 2010

WearAir: Expressive T-shirts for Air Quality Sensing
Sunyoung Kim, Eric Paulos, and Mark Gross
Tangible Embeded and Embodied Interaction, Cambridge, January 2010

 


2009:

Designing for Doubt (slides)
Eric Paulos
Engaging Data, October 2009

 

Listening to Air Quality
Sunyoung Kim and Eric Paulos
Expressive Interactions for Sustainability and Empowerment Workshop, October 2009

inAir: Measuring and Visualizing Indoor Air Quality
Sunyoung Kim and Eric Paulos
UbiComp, September 2009

inAir: Measuring and Visualizing Indoor Air Quality
Sunyoung Kim and Eric Paulos
UbiComp, September 2009

It’s not all about green: Energy use in low-income communities
Tawanna Dillahunt, Jennifer Mankoff, Eric Paulos, and Susan Fussell
UbiComp, September 2009

A Vehicle for Research: Using Street Sweepers to Explore the Landscape of Environmental Community Action
Paul Aoki, R.J. Honicky, Alan Mainwaring, Chris Myers, Eric Paulos, Sushmita Subramanian, and Allison Woodruff
ACM SIGCHI, Boston, USA, April 2009 (Nominated for Best Paper)

DIY for CHI: Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization             (Workshop Link here)
Leah Buechley, Eric Paulos, Daniela Rosner, and Amanda Williams
Workshop at ACM SIGCHI, Boston, USA, April 2009

Pervasive Computing and Environmental Sustainability: Two Conference Workshops
Marcus Foth, Eric Paulos, Christine Satchell, Paul Dourish
IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 78-81, January-March, 2009

 


2008:

N-smarts: networked suite of mobile atmospheric real-time sensors
Richard Honicky, Eric A. Brewer, Eric Paulos, Richard White
Networked Systems for Developing Regions (NSDR), August 2008

 

Common Sense: Mobile Environmental Sensing Platforms to Support Community Action and Citizen Science
Paul Aoki, R.J. Honicky, Alan Mainwaring, Chris Myers, Eric Paulos, Sushmita Subramanian, and Allison Woodruff
Demonstartion Submission UbiComp, September 2008

Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism              (Workshop Link here)
Eric Paulos, Marcus Foth, Christine Satchell, Younghui Kim, Paul Dourish, and Jaz Hee-jeong Choi
Workshop at UbiComp, September 2008

Pervasive Persuasive Technology and Environmental Sustainability             (Full set of Workshop Papers) (Workshop Website)
Marcus Foth, Christine Satchell, Eric Paulos, Tom Igoe, and Carlo Ratti
Workshop at the 6th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2008

Objects of Wonderment
Eric Paulos, Tom Jenkins, August Joki, and Parul Vora
ACM DIS, February 2008

 


2007:

Sensing Atmosphere
Eric Paulos, RJ Honicky, and Elizabeth Goodman
Workshop position paper for the Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research at
ACM SenSys 2008, November 2007

 

AnyPhone: Mobile Applications for Everyone
Eric Paulos, August Joki, Parul Vora, and Anthony Burke
ACM DUX, November 2007

180 x 120: Designing Alternate Location Systems
Eric Paulos, Anthony Burke, Tom Jenkins, and Karen Marcelo
ACM DUX, November 2007

RE: REempower and REcycle
Eric Paulos, Ian Smith, and RJ Honicky
Workshop position paper for the Ubiquitous Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values at
UbiComp, September 2007

Urban Computing      
Guest Editors: Tim Kindberg, Matthew Chalmers, and Eric Paulos
Special Issue on Urban Computing
IEEE Pervasive Computing, July-September 2007

Urban Score: Measuring Your Relationship with the City
Eric Paulos, Ian Smith, Ben Hooker
Workshop position paper for the Design and Evaluation of Ambient Information Systems at
Pervasive
, May 2007

Place Based Ringtones
Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins
Workshop position paper for Imaging the City workshop submission at
ACM SIGCHI
, April 2007

HCI Cannot be used to Evaluate Art
Eric Paulos
Workshop position paper for HCI and New Media Arts: Methodlogy and Evaluation at
ACM SIGCHI
, April 2007

Ex-Urban Noir Workshop Review           
Ken Anderson, Eric Paulos, Anthony Burke, and Amanda Williams
IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol 6, Num 1, January-March 2007

 


2006:

Beyond BitTorrent: Dark Nets to Native Data (with Anthony Burke)
Architectural Design issue on Collective Intelligence, October 2006

 

Objects of Wonderment: Hullabaloo
Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins
Demonstration at Ubiquitous Computing, September 2006

Jetsam: Exposing Our Everyday Discarded Objects
Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins
Demonstration at Ubiquitous Computing, September 2006

Ex-Urban Noir             (Workshop Link here)
Ken Anderson, Eric Paulos, Anthony Burke, and Amanda Williams
Workshop at Ubiquitous Computing, September 2006

Sashay: Designing for Wonderment
Eric Paulos and Chris Beckmann
ACM SIGCHI, April 2006

 


2005:

Metapolis and Urban Life             (Workshop Link here)
Eric Paulos, Ken Anderson, Michele Chang and Anthony Burke
Workshop at Ubiquitous Computing, September 2005

 

Jabberwocky: Your Personal Compass
Elizabeth Goodman
Where 2.0, O'Reilly Network, June 2005

Urban Probes: Encountering our Emerging Urban Atmospheres
Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins
ACM SIGCHI, April 2005

Urban Atmospheres Workshop Newsletter
Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins
Workshop position paper for Engaging the City: Public Interface and Civic Intermediary at
ACM SIGCHI,
April 2005

Our Emerging Urban Atmospheres: Urban Probes and Familiar Strangers
Eric Paulos
IEEE Pervasive Computing, April 2005

 


2004:

Urban Atmospheres
Eric Paulos
Keynote publication CiberArt Bilbao conference, August 2004

 

Rubbish
Eric Paulos and Tom Jenkins
Workshop position paper for Representations of Digital Identity at
ACM CSCW,
November 2004

UbiComp in the Urban Frontier             (Workshop Link here)
Eric Paulos, Ken Anderson, and Anthony Townsend
Workshop at Ubiquitous Computing, September 2004

The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort, and Play in Public Places
Eric Paulos and Elizabeth Goodman
ACM SIGCHI, April 2004

 


2003:

Intimate Computing
Genevieve Bell, Tim Brooke, Elizabeth Churchill, and Eric Paulos
Workshop in Ubiquitous Computing, October 2003

 

Mobile Play: Blogging, Tagging, and Messaging
Eric Paulos Panel in Ubiquitous Computing, October 2003

Connexus: A Communal Interface
Eric Paulos in ACM DUX: Designing for User Experiences, San Francisco, June 2003.

 


2002:

Connexus: An Evocative Interface
Eric Paulos in ACM CSCW Workshop on Ad hoc Communications and Collaboration in Ubiquitous Computing Environments, New Orleans, November 2002.

 

Collaborative Online Teleoperation with Spatial Dynamic Voting and a Human "Tele-Actor"
K. Goldberg, D. Song, Y. Khor, D. Pescovitz, A. Levandowski, J. Himmelstein, J. Shih, A. Ho, E. Paulos, J. Donath
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

 


2001 and earlier:

Social Tele-embodiment: Understanding Presence
Eric Paulos and John Canny
Autonomous Robotics Journal, July 2001

 

Designing Personal Tele-embodiment
Eric Paulos and John Canny
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1998

PRoP: Personal Roving Presence
Eric Paulos and John Canny
ACM SIGCHI, 1998

Ubiquitous tele-embodiment: applications and implications
Eric Paulos and John Canny
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Volume 46 , Issue 6, June, 1997

Delivering Real Reality to the World Wide Web via Telerobotics
Eric Paulos and John Canny
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1996

A World Wide Web Telerobotic Remote Environment Browser
Eric Paulos and John Canny
Fourth International World Wide Web Conference, 1995

Accurate Insertions Strategies Using Simple Optical Sensors
Eric Paulos and John Canny
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 1994

Informed Peg-in-Hole Insertion Using Optical Sensors
Eric Paulos and John Canny
SPIE Sensor Fusion VI, 1993

Workshops, Summits, and Symposia Organized:

 

UbiComp 2006: Ex-Urban Noir
Workshop that I co-organized at UbiComp 2006 Conference

UbiComp 2005: Metapolis and Urban Life
Workshop that I co-organized at UbiComp 2005 Conference

UbiComp 2004: UbiComp in the Urban Frontier
Workshop that I co-organized at UbiComp 2004 Conference

Street Talk: An Urban Computing Happening
Full Day Event held at the Intel Research Lab in Berkeley

UbiComp 2003 Demonstrations
Images from the Demonstrations that Allison Woodruff and I co-Chaired for UbiComp 2003 Conference

UbiComp 2003 Workshop on Intimate Computing
Images from the Intimate Computing Workshop that I co-organized at UbiComp 2003 Conference

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030303: Collective Play
Colloquium exploring the technological, aesthetic and social-political issues

Panels Organized:

UbiComp 2003 Panel on Mobile Play
Images from the Panel I organized at UbiComp 2003 Conference

Current Challenges in Internet Robotics
Workshop Panel International Conference on Robotics and Automation 1999
Detroit, Michigan, USA, ?? May, 1999

Displaced Perceptions: Intriguing Questions on the Desires of Uninhibited Technology
Keynote Panel featuring (alphabetically):
Natalie Jeremijenko
, Eduardo Kac, Mark Pauline, Eric Paulos
Web98 Design and Development Conference and Exposition
San Francisco, USA, 22 June, 1998

Interfacing Reality: Exploring Emerging Trends between Humans and Machines
Eric Paulos
Panel featuring (alphabetically):
John Canny
, Eduardo Kac, Ken Goldberg, Mark Pauline, Stelarc Panel Session
SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, USA, 5-7 August, 1997

Published Interactive Projects:

 

Jabberwocky (with Elizabeth Goodman)
Spectropolios,
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council on Digital Futures
New York, October 2004

PRoPs: The Avatars Are Loose in the Hauptplatz!
Eric Paulos and John Canny
FleshFactor
at Ars Electronica
Linz, Austria, 8-13 September, 1997
Some images (w/ Stelarc): (1) and (2)

PRoP: Personal Roving Presence
Eric Paulos, John Canny, and Francesca Barrientos
Electric Garden
at SIGGRAPH
Los Angeles, USA, 5-7 August, 1997

Space Browsers: A Tool for Ubiquitious Tele-embodiment
Eric Paulos and John Canny
The Digital Bayou at SIGGRAPH,
4-9 August, 1996

Video Publications:

 

Enabling Personal Tele-embodiment
Eric Paulos and John Canny
Video Technical Program
ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work CSCW, 1998

PRoP: Personal Roving Presence
Eric Paulos and John Canny
Video Technical Program
ACM SIGCHI, 1998

Invited Publications

 

Exploring the Ex-Urban Noir (with Ken Anderson, Amanda Williams, and Anthony Burke), IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2007 (in press)

Urban Atmospheres, Make Fest at the Emerging Technologies Conference (ETech), O'Reilly Network, March 2006

Jabberwocky: Your Personal Compass, (with Elizabeth Goodman), Where 2.0, San Francisco, USA, O'Reilly Network, June 2005

Our Emerging Urban Computing Landscape: Familiar Strangers, Receiver Magazine, Vodafone, UK, May 2004

Technical Reports:

 

Tele-Actors: Tools for Collaborative Telepresence
Eric Paulos, Ken Goldberg, David Pescovitz
UC Berkeley, Computer Science Technical Report (UCB/CSD-01-1135), 27 February 2001.

On-line Collision Avoidance for Multiple Robots Using B-Splines
Eric Paulos UC Berkeley, Computer Science Technical Report (UCB/CSD-98-977), 1994.

Trends in Grasping
Eric Paulos
Robotics Grasping Literature Overview, 1993

PhD Dissertation:

Personal Tele-embodiment (282 pages / 11 MB)
Eric Paulos
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
UC Berkeley, 2001

MS Thesis:

Fast Construction of Near Optimal Probing Strategies
Eric Paulos
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley, 1999

Patents:

 

Tele-Action: A Framework for Collaborative Telepresence
with Ken Goldberg, Judith Donath, and David Pescovitz
2001 (Pending)