[dorkbotpgh-announce] if you're headed to CHI 09

[j. eric townsend]

there's a dorkbot-boston event happening:


dorkbot-diyCHI 2009

Held in conjunction with a workshop at the 27th annual conference on
Human-Computer Interaction (CHI)

What do glitter and glue, needles and thread, batteries and wires
have to do with Human Computer Interaction? What can makers and
crafters teach technology researchers and designers about the world
and technology? How can CHI researchers engage with Do-It-Yourself
communities? This session will be a dialogue about the relationships
between academia and DIY communities. It will include presentations
from the workshop organizers and participants who will demo and
discuss their own DIY projects and then use them as springboards for
open discussions with the audience. Come to see some interesting
projects and to share your own insights and experiences.

When: 7:00pm Tuesday April 7
Where: Bartos Theater, Lower Level, MIT Media Lab (E15), MIT campus
Map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E15&Buildings=go
Free and open to the public.

Leah Buechley is an Assistant Professor at the MIT Media Lab where
she directs the High-Low Tech research group. The High-Low Tech group
explores the integration of high and low technology from cultural,
material, and practical perspectives, with the goal of engaging
diverse groups of people in developing their own technologies. Leah
is a well-known expert in the field of electronic textiles (e-
textiles), and her work in this area includes developing a method for
creating cloth printed circuit boards (fabric PCBs) and designing the
commercially available LilyPad Arduino toolkit.

Eric Paulos is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer
Interaction Institute within the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University. Previously he was Senior Research
Scientist at Intel in Berkeley, California where he founded the Urban
Atmospheres research group - challenged to employ innovative methods
to explore urban life and the future fabric of emerging technologies
across public urban landscapes. His areas of expertise span a deep
body of research territory in urban computing, sustainability, green
design, environmental awareness, social telepresence, robotics,
physical computing, interaction design, persuasive technologies, and
intimate media.

Daniela Rosner is a graduate student at the School of Information at
UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on how the design of social cues in
information technology impact our interactions. She investigates how
technology can support and strengthen ties between people using the
artifacts they create.

Amanda Williams is a PhD student at UC Irvine. Her research interests
are in the general area of Human-Computer Interaction, including but
not limited to ubiquitous computing in urban environments, tangible
user interfaces, computer mediated communication, and how Irvine got
to be such a bizarre planned community. "If this whole HCI thing
doesn't work out, I'll likely spend my time snowboarding and running
a pi(e) shop."

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-- 
J. Eric "jet" Townsend, CMU Master of Tangible Interaction Design '09

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