- Paul Dourish
Paul Dourish is a
computer scientist best known for his work at the intersection ofcomputer science andsocial science . He is aprofessor at theUniversity of California, Irvine , where he joined the faculty in 2000.Born and raised in
Glasgow , Dourish received aB.Sc. inArtificial Intelligence andComputer Science from theUniversity of Edinburgh in 1989. While at Rank Xerox EuroPARC (later theXerox Research Center Europe ) inCambridge , UK, he completed aPh.D. in Computer Science atUniversity College London . He has worked in research laboratories atApple Computer and atXerox 'sPalo Alto Research Center .His published work is primarily in the areas of
Human-Computer Interaction ,Computer supported cooperative work , andUbiquitous computing .His research tends to draw both on technical and social domains, and speak to the relationship between them. His research topics have included the role of informal awareness in supporting coordination in collaborative systems, the relationship between 'place' and 'space' in information systems, and
methodological questions about the use ofethnographic techniques in information systems design.He published "Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction" (
MIT Press ) in 2001. This book explores the relationship between phenomenological social scienceandinteraction design , particularly with reference to physically embodied computation andubiquitous computing . He proposesTangible computing andSocial computing as two different aspects of the same program of investigation, namedEmbodiment .At
UC Irvine , he teaches in the Informatics department, where he is a member of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI), and in the interdisciplinary graduate program inArts Comptuation Engineering . In addition to his appointment in Informatics, he has courtesy appointments inComputer Science andAnthropology . From 2004-2006, he was Associate Director at the
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.In 2008, he was elected to the
CHI Academy in recognition of his contributions to Human-Computer Interaction.Selected Bibliography
* Dourish, P. 2001. Where the Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction. Cambridge: MIT Press.
* Dourish, P. 2004. What We Talk About When We Talk About Context. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 8(1), 19-30.
* Dourish, P. and Anderson, K. 2006. Collective Information Practice: Exploring Privacy and Security as Social and Cultural Phenomena. Human-Computer Interaction, 21(3), 319-342.See also
*
Lucy Suchman
*Terry Winograd
*Mark Weiser
*Bonnie Nardi External links
* Dourish's [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd personal home page]
* [http://luci.ics.uci.edu/ LUCI] The Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction
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