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Eric Paulos Intel Research Berkeley |
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RESEARCH
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.
Ergo
On-the-Go Air Quality Readings delivered to your mobile deviceParticipatory Urbanism
Empowering citizens to collectively author, share, and remix measurments from their environmentObjects of Wonderment
Something wonderful is coming to your cityHullabaloo
Creating place based ringtonesUrban Score
Measuring your relationship with the cityAnyPhone
Designing mobile phone applications
for any phoneSashay
Visualizing personal patterns across the invisible geography of cell-towersExurban Noir
Designing for the darker side or urban lifeMatchbooks
Ephemeral anonymous interactions about feelings of urban love and hate180x120
RFID tags and tessellated serfaces generate vidual group dynamicsMetapolis and Urban Life
Workshop at UbiComp 2005Jetsam
Deconstructing urban tracesUbiComp in the
Urban Frontier
Workshop at UbiComp 2004Urban Probes
Interventions in Urban LifeJabberwocky
Visualzing your Urban Familiar StrangersStreet Talk
An Urban Computing HappeningFamiliar Strangers
Intel Research BerkeleyIntimate 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.
Other Projects