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Ubiquitous Computing Considered Harmful: A Two-Act Story of Getting Things Right for the Wrong Reason
Gregory D. Abowd is Dean of the College of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern in March 2021, he was on the faculty
in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology for 26.5 years. In more than 26 years at Georgia Tech, Dr. Abowd initiated bold and innovative research efforts, such as Classroom 2000 and the Aware Home, as well as pioneering
innovations in autism and technology, health systems, and a joint initiative with engineering in computational materials. He was on the founding editorial board of
IEEE Pervasive Computing Magazine, and was founding Editor-in-Chief of
Foundations and Trends in HCI and The Proceedings of the ACM in Interactive, Mobile, Wearable, and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). He also founded the non-profit Atlanta Autism Consortium in 2008 to serve and unite the various stakeholder communities
in Atlanta connected to autism research and services. Dean Abowd’s contributions to the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Ubiquitous Computing have been recognized through numerous awards from ACM and ACM SIGCHI, including the 2023 Lifetime Research
Award. He has graduated 39 Ph.D. students, the majority of whom have gone on to successful careers at top universities around the world. Dr. Abowd received the degree of B.S. in Honors Mathematics in 1986 from the University of Notre Dame. He then attended
the University of Oxford in the United.
Human-AI Integration
Jun Rekimoto received his Ph.D. in Information Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1996. Since 1994 he has worked for Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL). In 1999 he formed and directed the Interaction Laboratory within Sony CSL. Since 2007 he has been a professor in the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at The University of Tokyo. Since 2011 he also has been Deputy Director of Sony CSL. Rekimoto’s research interests include human-computer interaction, computer augmented environments, human augmentation, and human-AI-integration. He invented various innovative interactive systems and sensing technologies, including NaviCam (a hand-held AR system), Pick-and-Drop (a direct-manipulation technique for inter-appliance computing), CyberCode (the world’s first marker-based AR system), Augmented Surfaces, HoloWall, and SmartSkin (two earliest representations of multi-touch systems). He is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, very widely published and won numerous research and design awards for his research.