Paul Dourish

University of California, Irvine, Informatics, Faculty Member

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Information and context

by Chaoying Ma and Paul Dourish

Proceedings of the conference on Organizational computing systems - COCS '93, 1993

With the increasing ease and power of wmputer netsvorking technologies, many organisations me tak... more

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From technical dependencies to social dependencies

by Cleidson De Souza and Paul Dourish

Workshop on Social Networks for Design and Analysis: Using Network Information in CSCW, Nov 1, 2004

This paper describes Ariadne, a Java tool for the Eclipse IDE, that links technical and social de... more This paper describes Ariadne, a Java tool for the Eclipse IDE, that links technical and social dependencies. Ariadne is based on the observation that technical dependencies among software components create social dependencies among the software developers implementing these components. We describe our approach for creating technical, socio-technical and social dependencies from a software project. We describe possible uses of our approach and tool as well as discuss briefly related work.

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The commodification of location

by Irina Shklovski and Paul Dourish

Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing - Ubicomp '09, 2009

Location-based ubiquitous computing systems are entering mainstream society and becoming familiar... more Location-based ubiquitous computing systems are entering mainstream society and becoming familiar parts of everyday life. However, the settings in which they are deployed are already suffused with complex social dynamics. We report on a study of parole officers and parolees whose relationships are being transformed by location-based technologies. While parolees are clearly subjects of state discipline, the parole officers also find themselves subject to new responsibilities. This study highlights the complexities of power in sociotechnical systems and what happens when location becomes a tradable, technological object.

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Transnational times: locality, globality and mobility in technology design and use

by Irina Shklovski and Paul Dourish

Proceedings of the 12th …, Jan 1, 2010

This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the role of u... more This workshop will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the role of ubiquitous computing, the use of information and communication technologies and the politics of technological design in transnational practices. The ultimate goal of this workshop is to investigate the implications for the design and development of ubiquitous technologies in non-western contexts. We will consider the implications for conducting research and technology design within and across global and networked sites of technology production and use. The aim of the workshop is to gain a deeper understanding of the social, cultural and economic practices within global IT development.

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The commodification of location: Dynamics of power in location-based systems

by Irina Shklovski and Paul Dourish

Proc. UbiComp, Jan 1, 2009

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Emerging Sites of HCI Innovation: Hackerspaces, Hardware Startups & Incubators

by Garnet Hertz and Paul Dourish

Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14, 2014

In this paper, we discuss how a flourishing scene of DIY makers is turning visions of tangible an... more In this paper, we discuss how a flourishing scene of DIY makers is turning visions of tangible and ubiquitous computing into products. Drawing on long-term multi-sited ethnographic research and active participation in DIY making, we provide insights into the social, material, and economic processes that undergird this transition from prototypes to products. The contribution of this paper is three-fold. First, we show how DIY maker practice is illustrative of a broader “return to” and interest in physical materials. This has implications for HCI research that investigates questions of materiality. Second, we shed light on how hackerspaces and hardware start-ups are experimenting with new models of manufacturing and entrepreneurship. We argue that we have to take seriously these maker practices, not just as hobbyist or leisure practice, but as a professionalizing field functioning in parallel to research and industry labs. Finally, we end with reflections on the role of HCI researchers and designers as DIY making emerges as a site of HCI innovation. We argue that HCI is positioned to provide critical reflection, paired with a sensibility for materials, tools and design methods.

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A Divergence-Based Model of Synchrony and Distribution in Collaborative Systems

Rather than embodying the behaviour of toolkit components directly in their implementation, metal... more Rather than embodying the behaviour of toolkit components directly in their implementation, metalevel techniques provide programmers with ways to override and revise them. The style of very flexible design is derived from specialisable generic models of application behaviour. This paper presents a generic model of distribution and synchrony in cooperative systems. Organised around the explicit management of divergence between parallel streams of activity, it links usage and implementation issues, as well as supporting an important class of applications which are not well supported by more traditional CSCW models. Examples are given showing this model as a basis for flexible design.

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Process descriptions as organisational accounting devices

Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP '01, 2001

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Beyond AOP

Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications - OOPSLA '03, 2003

Software understanding (for documentation, maintenance or evolution) is one of the longest-standi... more Software understanding (for documentation, maintenance or evolution) is one of the longest-standing problems in Computer Science. The use of "high-level" programming paradigms and object-oriented languages helps, but fundamentally remains far from solving the problem. Most programming languages and systems have fallen prey to the assumption that they are supposed to capture idealized models of computation inspired by deceptively simple metaphors such as objects and mathematical functions. Aspect-oriented programming languages have made a significant break through by noticing that, in many situations, humans think and describe in crosscutting terms. In this paper we suggest that the next break through would require looking even closer to the way humans have been thinking and describing complex systems for thousand of years using natural languages. While natural languages themselves are not appropriate for programming, they contain a number of elements that make descriptions concise, effective and understandable. In particular, natural languages referentiality is a key factor in supporting powerful program organizations that can be easier understood by humans.

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Points of Persuasion: Strategic Essentialism and Environmental Sustainability

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Software as an Embodied Phenomenon: Cognitive, Social and Cultural Aspects of Programs and Programming

2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing, 2004

Abstract Summary form only given.&amp;quot; Practice,&amp;quot; suggests Wenger,&amp;... more Abstract Summary form only given.&amp;quot; Practice,&amp;quot; suggests Wenger,&amp;quot; is first and foremost a process by which we can find the world and our engagement with it as meaningful.&amp;quot; What, then, should we make of the practice of programming? Developing software is a complex and demanding task, and a range of studies have explored cognitive aspects of programming-problem-solving, manipulation of formal systems, representational aspects of languages and environments, and so on. However, software development is also situated ...

Print This Paper, Kill A Tree: Environmental Sustainability as a Research Topic for Human-Computer Interaction

Many HCI researchers have recently begun to examine the opportunities to use ICTs to promote envi... more Many HCI researchers have recently begun to examine the opportunities to use ICTs to promote environmental sustainability and ecological consciousness on the part of technology users. This paper examines the limits upon this work as currently construed. In particular, it argues that the political and cultural contexts of environmental practice must be part of an effective solution. Research on ecological politics and the political economy of environmentalism suggest some new directions for the relationship between sustainability and HCI. Author Keywords Environmental sustainability, environmental justice, political ecology, environmentality, scale, social networks.

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Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 14-18 September 2003, Helsinki, Finland

Emerging sites of HCI innovation

Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14, 2014

In this paper, we discuss how a flourishing scene of DIY makers is turning visions of tangible an... more In this paper, we discuss how a flourishing scene of DIY makers is turning visions of tangible and ubiquitous computing into products. Drawing on long-term multi-sited ethnographic research and active participation in DIY making, we provide insights into the social, material, and economic processes that undergird this transition from prototypes to products. The contribution of this paper is three-fold. First, we show how DIY maker practice is illustrative of a broader "return to" and interest in physical materials. This has implications for HCI research that investigates questions of materiality. Second, we shed light on how hackerspaces and hardware start-ups are experimenting with new models of manufacturing and entrepreneurship. We argue that we have to take seriously these maker practices, not just as hobbyist or leisure practice, but as a professionalizing field functioning in parallel to research and industry labs. Finally, we end with reflections on the role of HCI researchers and designers as DIY making emerges as a site of HCI innovation. We argue that HCI is positioned to provide critical reflection, paired with a sensibility for materials, tools and design methods.

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Supporting awareness in a distributed work group

Computer Human Interaction, 1992

Everyday Encounters with Ubiquitous Computing in a Campus Environment

Seeking the Source: Software Code as a Social and Technical Artifact

Transnational times: locality, globality and mobility in technology design and use

by Silvia Lindtner, Irina Shklovski, and Paul Dourish

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Affect

Proceedings of the 4th decennial conference on Critical computing between sense and sensibility - CC '05, 2005

While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist account... more While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it relies on and reproduces the same information-processing model of cognition. In affective computing, affect is often seen as another kind of information -discrete units or states internal to an individual that can be transmitted in a loss-free manner from people to computational systems and back. Drawing on cultural, social, and interactional critiques of cognition which have arisen in HCI, we introduce and explore an alternative model of emotion as interaction: dynamic, culturally mediated, and socially constructed and experienced. This model leads to new goals for the design and evaluation of affective systems -instead of sensing and transmitting emotion, systems should support human users in understanding, interpreting, and experiencing emotion in its full complexity and ambiguity.

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Coordination by avoidance

Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work - GROUP '10, 2010

Coordination is central in CSCW systems design, where it is often considered as a process of brin... more Coordination is central in CSCW systems design, where it is often considered as a process of bringing artifacts and activities together and making them part of a larger system. In this paper, we argue that existing conceptualizations of coordination in CSCW can be successfully extended with the notion of coordination by avoidance. We introduce this notion to describe particular coordination mechanisms whereby actors avoid routines or routes of actions when it conflicts with those of other actors. In a study of pre-diagnostic work, we found that actors coordinate by avoidance when they realize alternative routes of action or that a routine has to be set to a halt to ensure that practices stay coordinated. Routines in diagnostic work are for instance the rescheduling of patients and requesting of relevant patient records that are mundane practices, however, necessary when responsibility is shared or shifts between various actors collaborating to diagnose a patient. Thus, the contribution of this paper lies in empirically identifying practices of avoidance and extending dominant conceptualizations of coordination through the notion of avoidance. We identify four ways that actors coordinate their practices by avoidance; by demarcating, procrastinating, delegating and accommodating routines or routes of action. Furthermore, we conceptualize coordination by avoidance as a distinct type of coordination mechanism to be taken into consideration in CSCW information systems design.

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Information and context

by Chaoying Ma and Paul Dourish

Proceedings of the conference on Organizational computing systems - COCS '93, 1993

With the increasing ease and power of wmputer netsvorking technologies, many organisations me tak... more

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From technical dependencies to social dependencies

by Cleidson De Souza and Paul Dourish

Workshop on Social Networks for Design and Analysis: Using Network Information in CSCW, Nov 1, 2004

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The commodification of location

by Irina Shklovski and Paul Dourish

Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing - Ubicomp '09, 2009

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Transnational times: locality, globality and mobility in technology design and use

by Irina Shklovski and Paul Dourish

Proceedings of the 12th …, Jan 1, 2010

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The commodification of location: Dynamics of power in location-based systems

by Irina Shklovski and Paul Dourish

Proc. UbiComp, Jan 1, 2009

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Emerging Sites of HCI Innovation: Hackerspaces, Hardware Startups & Incubators

by Garnet Hertz and Paul Dourish

Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14, 2014

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A Divergence-Based Model of Synchrony and Distribution in Collaborative Systems

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Process descriptions as organisational accounting devices

Proceedings of the 2001 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP '01, 2001

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Beyond AOP

Companion of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications - OOPSLA '03, 2003

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Points of Persuasion: Strategic Essentialism and Environmental Sustainability

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Software as an Embodied Phenomenon: Cognitive, Social and Cultural Aspects of Programs and Programming

2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages - Human Centric Computing, 2004

Print This Paper, Kill A Tree: Environmental Sustainability as a Research Topic for Human-Computer Interaction

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Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 14-18 September 2003, Helsinki, Finland

Emerging sites of HCI innovation

Proceedings of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '14, 2014

In this paper, we discuss how a flourishing scene of DIY makers is turning visions of tangible an... more In this paper, we discuss how a flourishing scene of DIY makers is turning visions of tangible and ubiquitous computing into products. Drawing on long-term multi-sited ethnographic research and active participation in DIY making, we provide insights into the social, material, and economic processes that undergird this transition from prototypes to products. The contribution of this paper is three-fold. First, we show how DIY maker practice is illustrative of a broader "return to" and interest in physical materials. This has implications for HCI research that investigates questions of materiality. Second, we shed light on how hackerspaces and hardware start-ups are experimenting with new models of manufacturing and entrepreneurship. We argue that we have to take seriously these maker practices, not just as hobbyist or leisure practice, but as a professionalizing field functioning in parallel to research and industry labs. Finally, we end with reflections on the role of HCI researchers and designers as DIY making emerges as a site of HCI innovation. We argue that HCI is positioned to provide critical reflection, paired with a sensibility for materials, tools and design methods.

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Supporting awareness in a distributed work group

Computer Human Interaction, 1992