Eric Paulos

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Eric Paulos
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Born1969 (age 53–54)
Los Angeles
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUC Berkeley
OccupationProfessor
Known forcomputer science research, art, robotics research
Website www.paulos.net

Eric Paulos is an American computer scientist, artist (working in new media art), and inventor, best known for his early work on internet robotic teleoperation and is considered a founder of the field of Urban Computing, coining the term "urban computing" in 2004. His current work is in the areas of emancipation fabrication, cosmetic computing, citizen science, New Making Renaissance, Critical Making, Robotics, DIY Biology, DIY culture, Micro-volunteering, and the cultural critique of such technologies through New Media strategies.

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Dr. Paulos is the founder and director of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, an associate professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley, director of the CITRIS Invention Lab, Chief Learning Officer for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, and faculty within the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM).

PRoP: Personal roving Presence early telepresence system developed by Eric Paulos. Blimp version from 1994. Prop Blimp.png
PRoP: Personal roving Presence early telepresence system developed by Eric Paulos. Blimp version from 1994.

Previously, Dr. Paulos held the Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor Chair in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where he was faculty within the Human-Computer Interaction Institute with courtesy faculty appointments in the Robotics Institute and in the Entertainment Technology Center. At CMU he was also director of the Living Environments Lab. Prior to CMU, Eric was senior research scientist at Intel Research at one of the Intel Research Lablets 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. Eric is a regular contributor, editorial board member, and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. His published work is primarily in the areas of Robotics, Urban Computing, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer supported cooperative work, and Ubicomp. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley where he helped launch a new robotic industry by developing some of the first internet tele-operated robots including Space Browsing helium filled blimps and Personal Roving Presence devices (PRoPs).

Eric is also the founder and director of the Experimental Interaction Unit and a frequent collaborator with Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories. Eric's work has been exhibited at the InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Japan, Ars Electronica, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, the Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), SFMOMA, the Chelsea Art Museum, Art Interactive, LA MOCA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the ZKM, Southern Exposure, and a performance for the opening of the Whitney Museum's 1997 Biennial Exhibition.

Born and raised in California, Eric received a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, completing his Ph.D. in 2001. Eric has also collaborated with Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories since 1994.

PRoP: Personal roving Presence early telepresence system developed by Eric Paulos (1993-2000). PRoP- Remote Telepresence.png
PRoP: Personal roving Presence early telepresence system developed by Eric Paulos (1993-2000).
Visual history of Internet Telepresence showing origins with Paulos' PRoPs in 1994. Internet Telepresence.png
Visual history of Internet Telepresence showing origins with Paulos' PRoPs in 1994.

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Selected bibliography

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References

  1. ↑ "A World Wide Web Telerobotic Remote Environment Browser". www.paulos.net. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
  2. ↑ Paulos, Eric; Canny, John (1998). "PRoP: personal roving presence". Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '98. Los Angeles, California, United States: ACM Press: 296–303. doi:10.1145/274644.274686. ISBN   9780201309874. S2CID   338968.
  3. ↑ Paulos, Eric (2003). "Connexus: a communal interface". Proceedings of the 2003 Conference on Designing for User Experiences - DUX '03. San Francisco, California: ACM Press: 1–4. doi:10.1145/997078.997082. ISBN   9781581137286. S2CID   2086609.
  4. ↑ Paulos, Eric; Honicky, RJ; Goodman, Elizabeth (2007). "Sensing Atmosphere" (PDF). Workshop Position Paper for the Sensing on Everyday Mobile Phones in Support of Participatory Research at ACM SenSys.
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