[Chapters-l] ASIS&T Indiana Fall Social, October 14

[Lavagnino, Merri B]

ASIS&T Members and Guests:

You are invited to our last activity for this ASIS&T year - a special
talk and social activity at the School of Library and Information
Science (SLIS) at Indiana University Bloomington:

Friday, October 14, 2005
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Indiana University Bloomington
Main Library 011

Bring interested friends and colleagues with you! ASIS&T Indiana will be
co-sponsoring a talk by Paul Dourish with the Rob Kling Center for
Social Informatics, followed by food and drink! This is your opportunity
to:

-	learn about ubiquitous computing and the consequences of the
model of information as commodity;
-	meet other ASIS&T members and colleagues with like interests;
-	get hints about attending the upcoming ASIS&T Annual Meeting
(http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM05/index.html);
-	socialize with students who have an interest in pursuing careers
in your field;
-	take a peek at some unique historical documents from the
archives of the Indiana Chapter of ASIS&T (including some actual photos
from the 1984 ASIS&T Mid-Year Meeting held in Bloomington);
-	and perhaps best of all, we'll eat and drink (I'll make sure
some chocolate is in the plan)!

All are invited for a fun time mixing veteran ASIS&T members with
colleagues and students interested in information science and
technology!

The full description of the presentation by Paul Dourish is below. Hope
to see you there!

Best regards,
Merri Beth

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Merri Beth Lavagnino
Deputy Information Technology Policy Officer
Indiana University
(317) 274-3739 


The Culture of Information: Ubiquitous Computing and Representations
of Reality

Paul Dourish
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine

ABSTRACT
In the late 1980s, Weiser suggested that the ages of mainframe and
personal 
computing would give way to a third wave of "ubiquitous computing," a 
confluence of embedded physical computing and pervasive wireless
networking. 
Indeed, ubiquitous computing has become a dominant paradigm for
computing 
research and an increasingly prevalent form for the delivery of
information 
services. Ubiquitous computing reconfigures the relationship between
people and 
the world around them. It does this by interpreting that world in terms
of 
information. This is not a new phenomenon. Information systems research
has, 
since its inception, been built upon a model of information as
commodity, to be 
extracted, exchanged, moved, stored, and processed. The idea that the
world is 
populated with information objects and artifacts is at the heart of the 
technological enterprise. However, in the context of ubiquitous
computing, this 
model privileges certain models of spatial and environmental knowing
while 
obscuring or devaluing others. In this talk, I will use ubiquitous
computing as 
a lens through which to examine these concerns, and explore the
consequences of 
the model of information as commodity.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Paul Dourish is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of
Information 
and Computer Sciences at the University of California,Irvine and
Associate 
Director of the Irvine Division of the California Institute for 
Telecommunications and Information Technology. His primary research
interests 
are in the areas of Ubiquitous Computing, Computer-Supported Cooperative
Work, 
and Human-Computer Interaction. He is especially interested in the
foundational 
relationships between social scientific analysis and technological
design. His 
2001 book "Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction"
(MIT 
Press) explores how phenomenological accounts of action can provide an 
alternative to traditional cognitive analysis for understanding the
embodied 
experience of interactive and computational systems. Before coming to
UCI, he 
was a Senior Member of Research Staff in the Computer Science Laboratory
of 
Xerox PARC. He has also held research positions at Apple Computer and at
Rank 
Xerox EuroPARC. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University
College, 
London, and a B.Sc.(Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Computer
Science from 
the University of Edinburgh. For more information about his research
interests, 
publications, and teaching, see:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/