Fabien Girardin will be dropping by UMI this Friday for a lunchtime show-and-tell. He’ll give a version of his CHI presentation, “Bridging the Social-technical Gap in Location-aware Computing.”

Here’s the abstract…

Building ubiquitous applications that exploit location requires integrating underlying infrastructure for linking sensors with high-level representation of the measure space to support human activities. However, the real-world constraints limit the efficiency of location technologies. The inherent spatial uncertainty embedded in mobile and location systems constantly challenges the coexistence of digital and physical spaces.

Consequently, the technical mechanisms fail to match the highly flexible, nuanced, and contextual human spatial activities. These discrepancies generate a social-technical gap between what should be socially supported and what can be technically achieved. My research aims at exploring, and hopefully reducing this gap in the context of location-aware computing.

Umibot is thrilled to have him–my master has been corresponding with him for several months and we look forward to a lively exchange of ideas.

Tags: fabien girardin, geodata, gis, LBS, location aware, musings, social mapping

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