my name is jenn

Jenbot likes wearable computing, tangible computing objects (particularly squishy ones) and living in the fuzzy haze between performance art and computer science. When she’s not dancing or sleeping, she can be found in the Ubiquitous Computing Lab in the InfoLab21 at Lancaster University’s Department of Computing in Lancaster England.

She’s often cleverly disguised as a Research Associate whose interest is in exploring the types of interactions that occur with non-task based interactive uses of technologies, including those with physical or tangible objects, interactive installations and wearable or mobile computers. Her current projects include applying performance art practice as a design and evaluation method for computing research as well as exploring the concept of affordance as an alternative method for the design of wearable and tangible objects. She is part of Equator, a six-year Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) supported by EPSRC that focuses on the integration of physical and digital interaction.

She believes in Computing Intimacies and practices this through extreme prototyping activities at Lancaster, including Scrapheap (Computing) Challenge, Art-Cels, and .:thePooch:.. ThePooch have exhibited at numerous arts events, including galleries, theatres and performance art parties as well as non-traditional performance spaces such as nightclubs, foyers and castle grounds.

Two “n” Jenn hopes to complete her PhD (fingers crossed) very soon. Someday she might even start a blog.

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