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Ubicomp's colonial impulse

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UbiComp '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Pages 133 - 142

https://doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370238

Published: 05 September 2012 Publication History

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Ubiquitous computing has a grand vision. Even the name of the area identifies its universalizing scope. In this, it follows in a long tradition of projects that attempt to create new models and paradigms that unite disparate, distributed elements into a large conceptual whole. We link concerns in ubiquitous computing into a colonial intellectual tradition and identify the problems that arise in consequence, explore the locatedness of innovation, and discuss strategies for decolonizing ubicomp's research methodology.

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UbiComp '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

September 2012

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ISBN:9781450312240

DOI:10.1145/2370216

General Chair:
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Carnegie Mellon University
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National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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