{"63590":{"#nid":"63590","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag: Christopher Le Dantec","body":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\n                    \u003Cp\u003EIn the U.S., as in other Western nations, new \nforms of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are rapidly \nchanging how we interact with each other. On one hand, ICTs have enabled\n us to develop and recognize new forms of community that are divorced \nfrom traditional geographic and familial constraints. On the other, ICTs\n have helped existing communities, from close knit social groups to \nindividuals who merely co-habit public spaces, to interact with each \nother in novel ways. Simply put, access to computers, to mobile phones, \nand to data connectivity has opened new avenues of interaction and \nexperience and at the same time created expectations about the \nflattening of society through access to information. This notion that modern digital technology holds promises of \ndemocratization via information and of enabling new and meaningful \nsocial interactions fails to acknowledge that the realization of these \nbenefits relies upon devices and infrastructure whose availability \nre\ufb02ect socioeconomic contours; that the technologies that enable \ninformation access can also reinforce rather than obviate marginality \ndue to barriers to access and suitability. This assessment points to \nopportunities for better understanding and better designing technologies\n for the \u0022uncommon\u0022 user\u2014the urban homeless.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis research focuses on the urban homeless in order to explore issues \naround how ICTs might be productively deployed within social contexts \nwhere technology is not normally seen as a first order concern. It seeks\n to address the ways mobile technologies may empower the urban homeless,\n and how such technologies impact their ability to utilize social \nservices, establish stability, and interact as socially legitimate \nindividuals within the broader urban community. While this work is \nhighly contextualized within the realm of urban homelessness, it \nprovides a local perspective on global technology user where print and \ntechnical literacy, practical access to infrastructure (data and power),\n and differences in social custom and values inform how different \ntechnologies are, or are not, adopted.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Christopher Le Dantec is a Ph.D. candidate in the\n Human-Centered Computing program at Georgia Tech, a Microsoft Graduate \nFellow, and former Foley Scholar. He is advised by Keith Edwards. His \nresearch takes aim at how marginalized communities like the urban \nhomeless are affected by social change inherent in the adoption of new \ntechnologies. His work looks at the institutional and personal \nimplications of mobile information technologies on the urban homeless \nand the organizations upon which they depend. His work engages the \neconomic, organizational, and practical constraints in an environment of\n extremes in order develop and better understand the impact of \ninformation technologies on the provision of social services on the \nlives of homeless families seeking aid. Prior to Georgia Tech, he was an\n interaction designer with Sun Microsystems and helped establish its \ninteraction design practice in the Czech Republic.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Community Resource Messenger: Exploring Mobile Technologies for the Urban Homeless."}],"uid":"27197","created_gmt":"2011-01-13 16:57:17","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:53:48","author":"Renata Le Dantec","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-01-20T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-01-20T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-01-20T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-01-20 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-01-20 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-01-20 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"},{"id":"1219","name":"Digital Lounge - Health and Education"},{"id":"1220","name":"Digital Lounge"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"},{"id":"10621","name":"hcc"},{"id":"8494","name":"HCI"},{"id":"4322","name":"homeless"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}