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For the first couple of weeks of working and thinking about my thesis I’ve mostly been reading; surveying the landscape of what is already out there both in terms of projects and thinking.<\/p>\n
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Doing my best to stand on the shoulders of giants.<\/p>\n
These are some of the people who’s thoughts have been influencing my thinking regarding where I want to take my thesis; sometimes I have highlighted a particular paper, blog post, talk, or project, sometimes I haven’t. It’s not a comprehensive bibliography, even of just what I’ve read so far. But there’s lots of interesting stuff in there.<\/p>\n
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IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:<\/strong><\/p>\n Dan Hill: City as Platform; Towards a Sentient City<\/p>\n Matt Jones: Mujicomp and Mujicompfrastructure (Technoark 2010); The Demon Haunted World (Webstock 2009); The City is a Battlesuit for Surviving the Future (2009)<\/p>\n Adam Greenfield: Everyware (2006); The City is Yours to Use (expected soon); most of his blog, Speedbird.<\/p>\n Einar Sneve Martinussen: Adventures in Urban Computing (AHO, 2008)<\/p>\n Ben Cerveny, Michal Migurski (Stamen)<\/p>\n Anne Galloway: Intimations of Everyday Life: Ubiquitous Computing and The City<\/p>\n Timo Arnall: Designing for the Web in the World; Designing for an Internet of Things (IxDA Interactions 2010)<\/p>\n Usman Haque<\/p>\n Julian Bleecker: A Manifesto for Networked Objects (2006)<\/p>\n Urban Computing and its Discontents (Greenfield and Bleecker)<\/p>\n Jan Chipchase<\/p>\n Mike Kuniavsky: User Experience Design for Ubiquitous Computing (pre-print draft, 2010)<\/p>\n Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2010 (various write-ups, various speakers. Theme: “City as Platform”)<\/p>\n Molly Steenson<\/p>\n Century of the City, Rockefeller Foundation (2008)<\/p>\n Fabien Girardin<\/p>\n Nicolas Nova<\/p>\n Clay Shirky: Permanet, Nearlynet, and Wireless Data (2003)<\/p>\n Fukasawa and Morrison: Super Normal<\/p>\n William J. Mitchell<\/p>\n Bruce Sterling: Shaping Things<\/p>\n Marc Weiser<\/p>\n Martijn de Waal: Design Approaches for the 21st Century City<\/p>\n Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City (ed. Marcus Foth, <\/em>2008)<\/p>\n Paul Dourish and Genevieve Bell: The Infrastructure of Experience and the Experience of Infrastructure (2007); Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Notes on Ubiquitous Computing’s Dominant Vision (2007); Getting Out of the City: Meaning and Structure in Everyday Encounters with Space (2004?)<\/p>\n Williams and Dourish: Reimagining the City: The Cultural Dimensions of Urban Computing<\/p>\n Don Norman: Designing the Infrastructure (Interactions, 2009)<\/p>\n Mainwaring, Chang, Anderson: Infrastructures and Their Discontents: Implications for Ubicomp<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n As for what my thesis might be called? well, that’s covered by Molly Steenson’s Urban Computing Conference Title Generator<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n