Wednesday, April 7, 2004|
Paul Dourish My new guru. I've recently discovered the work of Paul Dourish. Borrowed his book Where The Action Is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction from the library, but ordered it yesterday from Amazon as it's one of the few books I've encountered recently that I want to read over a few times.
Wish I was able to attend his ubicomp class: The technology of the enhanced physical world: middleware for context-aware and location based applications, context-aware computing, interaction models and design, infrastructure for ad hoc device coalitions. The psychology of the enhanced physical world: knowledge in the head and in the world,affordances, distributed cognition. The sociology of the enhanced physical world: unremarkable computing, institutional settings, situated action. The anthropology of the enhanced physical world: new technologies and cultural practice, narratives of modernity, technology, myth, and ritual. The philosophy of the enhanced physical world: phenomenology, the relationship between meaning and practice, Heidegger's model of equipment, Wittgenstein on ordinary language."
Equally impressed by the description his student Danyel Fisher gives of his work:
- measuring social networks to understand interaction patterns. |
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Newsmap A new way of visulaizing news. Impressive. [Via Josh Rubin] 8:51:38 AM 
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Smart Dust This has been something that's been floating around (pardon the pun) for a few years now. Interesting one to track. [Via Smart Mobs] 8:44:11 AM
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Moore's Second Law The sub-title says it all: "If we don't do something about increasing battery life, we're toast."[Wired Via Slashdot] 8:24:54 AM
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Bronx Hospital Embraces Online Technology That Others Avoid Looks like the new York Times is having a CPOE week this week.. "There is no question that Montefiore is a national leader," said Dr. William Stead, an expert on hospital technology and director of the Informatics Center at Vanderbilt Medical Center, another leader in the field. "I think everybody agrees that the old process is simply unacceptable and that everyone is going to go the way Montefiore has gone and we have. But so far, not many hospitals have."[NY Times] 7:53:54 AM
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Many Hospitals Resist Computerized Patient Care Article from the New York Times. "For years, technology has been held out as an important way to curb the scourge of medical errors. President Bush and Senator John Kerry have each called for a bigger commitment to computerization to reduce the 98,000 avoidable deaths a year that an eye-opening federal report in 1999 said might be caused by mistakes of doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel.
Yet even now, despite pressure from large employers, unions and health care advocacy groups - and aggressive marketing by vendors - only a few dozen medical centers across the country are making full use of the latest computerized patient safety systems." [NY Times] |
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