Eric Paulos
Assistant Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Center for New Media

Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

School of Information

paulos@berkeley.edu

The best way to make art is to intrigue and to be a bit seductive.
You just say, here's this and this...you figure it out.            - John Baldessari

RESEARCH

A description of elements of my research can be found by visiting the Living Environment Lab website. These is a (now dated) video of some of our work from 2009: Video Overview 2009

Living Environments Lab A collaborative research laboratory focusing on the critical intersection of human life, our living planet, and technology

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Urban Atmospheres

Urban Atmospheres focuses on our lifestyles and technologies within the context of public urban spaces. Its research challenges differ from those found within the home where technologies readily intermingle across our intimate relations with friends and family members. It diverges from office and work environments where productivity and efficiency often dominate our computing tools. It is also not simply concerned with mobile or social computing. Urban Computing establishes an important new framework for deconstructing and analyzing technology and urban life across five research themes - people, place, infrastructure, architecture, and flow. More information can be found on the Urban Atmospheres page. A few of the projects are listed below.

		Citizen Science Enabling Participatory Urbanism
		Ergo On-the-Go Air Quality Readings delivered to your mobile device
		Participatory Urbanism Empowering citizens to collectively author, share, and remix measurments from their environment
		Objects of Wonderment Something wonderful is coming to your city
		Hullabaloo Creating place based ringtones
		Urban Score Measuring your relationship with the city
		AnyPhone Designing mobile phone applications for any phone
		Sashay Visualizing personal patterns across the invisible geography of cell-towers
		Exurban Noir Designing for the darker side or urban life
		Matchbooks Ephemeral anonymous interactions about feelings of urban love and hate
		180x120 RFID tags and tessellated serfaces generate vidual group dynamics
		Metapolis and Urban Life Workshop at UbiComp 2005
		Jetsam Deconstructing urban traces
		UbiComp in the Urban Frontier Workshop at UbiComp 2004
		Urban Probes Interventions in Urban Life
		Jabberwocky Visualzing your Urban Familiar Strangers
		Street Talk An Urban Computing Happening
		Familiar Strangers Intel Research Berkeley
		PRoPs: Personal Roving Presence PRoP Intro Video (1999)

Intimate Computing

We are interested in understanding intimacy as a theme in ubiquitous computing research and its value to people. In particular creating tools that connect people in novel and meaningful ways and further promote the building and sustaining of relationships to groups and others.

   Connexus

Other Projects

    Mote SenseTable