Divining a Digital Future
Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing
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264 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2014
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262525893 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262525895 |
| Author: | Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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About The Author
Paul Dourish
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.
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