Exurban Noir Workshop Proceedings Online

The papers for the Exurban Noir workshop to be held at UbiComp are now online.
read the proceedings
Details on the workshop.

My paper is entitled The Third Way of Empowering Urban Social Systems and is on page 14 of the pdf.

ABSTRACT
Democratic societies benefit from hearing the diverse voices of
the underprivileged which increase equality and promote public
debate. This paper argues that the UbiComp research community
should focus on providing inexpensive and uncensored mobile
group communication technologies to further these ends. To aid in
this process, a third approach is proposed as a research strategy to
augment the existing effective approaches of ethnography and
technology development commonly in use. It combines lowfidelity
prototyping and design oriented in-situ requirements
analysis. The combination of these approaches would efficiently
facilitate the development of community-centered ubiquitous
tools; this would in turn enable groups to seamlessly form,
coordinate, and collaborate – regardless of their location or
socioeconomic status. Creation of this type of a mobile social
technology is a reasonable goal for those interested in fostering
more humane urban societies.