Xaroula Kerasidou

My project focuses on ubiquitous computing, and through an engagement with it aims to explore the interaction, the ?coming together', of the different entities that get mobilised within its context. Specifically, I focus on the interaction between human and technology as one of the core issues that arise within ubiquitous computing. But instead of asking traditional HCI questions (what does a more human-centred interaction mean, and how can it be achieved), I investigate what sort of ontologies ubiquitous computing assumes and then, in turn, enacts. Questions of interaction, sameness and difference, agency, performativity come together and are investigated under my main research question Who are the interacting agents in the context of ubiquitous computing and how do the boundaries between them come to be enacted?