Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

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Paul Dourish (Chancellor's Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine) Genevieve Bell (Intel Fellow and Director, User Experience Research, INTEL)

Divining a Digital Future

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Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing

Paul Dourish (Chancellor's Professor of Informatics, University of California, Irvine), Genevieve Bell (Intel Fellow and Director, User Experience Research, INTEL)

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English

MIT Press
01 October 2014

Impact of science & technology on society; Computer science

Series: The MIT Press

A sociotechnical investigation of ubiquitous computing as a research enterprise and as a lived reality.

Ubiquitous computing (or ubicomp) is the label for a ""third wave"" of computing technologies. Following the eras of the mainframe computer and the desktop PC, ubicomp is characterized by small and powerful computing devices that are worn, carried, or embedded in the world around us. The ubicomp research agenda originated at Xerox PARC in the late 1980s; these days, some form of that vision is a reality for the millions of users of Internet-enabled phones, GPS devices, wireless networks, and ""smart"" domestic appliances. In Divining a Digital Future, computer scientist Paul Dourish and cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell explore the vision that has driven the ubiquitous computing research program and the contemporary practices that have emerged-both the motivating mythology and the everyday messiness of lived experience.

Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of the authors' collaboration, the book takes seriously the need to understand ubicomp not only technically but also culturally, socially, politically, and economically. Dourish and Bell map the terrain of contemporary ubiquitous computing, in the research community and in daily life; explore dominant narratives in ubicomp around such topics as infrastructure, mobility, privacy, and domesticity; and suggest directions for future investigation, particularly with respect to methodology and conceptual foundations.

By: Paul Dourish (Chancellor's Professor of Informatics University of California Irvine), Genevieve Bell (Intel Fellow and Director, User Experience Research, INTEL)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780262525893
ISBN 10: 0262525895
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 October 2014
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Dourish is Chancellor's Professor of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Where the Action Is- The Foundations of Embodied Interaction and coauthor of Divining a Digital Future- Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing, both published by the MIT Press. Genevieve Bell is an Intel Fellow and the Director of Intel's first user-focused research and development lab, Interactions and Experiences Research.