Course Description

Bonnie Nardi is a Professor in the Department of Informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences. She is is interested in social theory, environmental informatics, and human computer interaction. Her current work includes studies of occupational identity, political economy and human-computer interaction, and post-growth strategies for the design of information systems. She is the author of My Life as a Night Elf Priest: An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft (Michigan University Press 2010) and co-author of  Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: a Handbook of Method  (Princeton University Press, 2012). She co-edited Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World  (Oxford University Press, 2012).  She co-edits the MIT Press Series “Acting with Technology.”

Bill Tomlinson is a Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He studies the fields of environmental informatics, human-computer interaction, multi-agent systems and computer-supported learning. His book Greening through IT  (MIT Press, 2010) examines the ways in which information technology can help people think and act on the broad scales of time, space, and complexity necessary for us to address the world's current environmental issues. In addition, he has authored dozens of papers across a range of journals and conferences in computing, the learning sciences, and the law. His work has been reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Wired.com, Scientific American Frontiers, CNN, and the BBC. In 2007, he received an NSF CAREER award, and in 2008 he was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT Media Lab. 

Donald J. Patterson is an Associate Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Irvine where he also serves as director of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction. Professor Patterson's research lies at the interface of ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. In this space he researches applications, algorithms and systems that use intelligent context to support situated sustainable computing. He has received multiple impact awards for his research as well as for his support of undergraduate teaching and research.