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I'm a Ph.D. candidate at UC Irvine's School of Information and Computer Sciences, currently living in Montreal while finishing my dissertation.

My research centers on space and mobile bodies, and the ways in which they interpenetrate with, construct, and are reconfigured by computational technologies and media. I deal with ubiquitous computing in urban environments, tangible interaction, physical/social/spatial embodiment, and computer mediated communication.

More specifically, I am fascinated with the particular urban experience of living in Bangkok (which I did for a year), and designing engaging mobile systems for that milieu.

I mostly do design and ethnography, sometimes both at once. I do develop software, but it's really just to feed the aforementioned two activities. More physical building of things is far more enjoyable, and I wish I could do it more often.

I will also be looking for a job. Any minute now. Tell your friends!

My email is amandamw [at] uci.edu

I also blog on my general personal blog, a food blog, and sexualinteractions.org/, an interdisciplinary webzine and forum focusing on design, engineering, use, appropriation and critique of sexual technologies