Eric Paulos

Associate Professor

Eric Paulos

Bio

Eric Paulos is the founder and director of the Hybrid Ecologies Lab, an Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department at UC Berkeley, Director of the CITRIS Invention Lab, Chief Learning Officer for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, a Co-Director of the Swarm Lab, and faculty within the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM). Previously, Eric held the Cooper-Siegel Associate Professor Chair in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University where he was faculty within the Human-Computer Interaction Institute with courtesy faculty appointments in the Robotics Institute and in the Entertainment Technology Center. Prior to CMU, Eric was Senior Research Scientist at Intel Research in Berkeley, California where he founded the Urban Atmospheres research group. His areas of expertise span a deep body of research territory in urban computing, sustainability, green design, environmental awareness, social telepresence, robotics, physical computing, interaction design, persuasive technologies, and intimate media. Eric received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Eric is also the founder and director of the Experimental Interaction Unit and a frequent collaborator with Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories.

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Projects

Published Projects
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Hybrid Microgenetic Analysis
Using Activity Codebooks to Identify and Characterize Creative Process
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Phosphenes
Crafting Resistive Heaters within Thermoreactive Composites
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A Conversation with Actuators
An Exploratory Design Environment for Hybrid Materials
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Guardians of Practice
A Contextual Inquiry of Failure-Mitigation Strategies within Creative Practices
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Illumination Aesthetics
Light as a Creative Material within Computational Design
Ellustrate
Aesthetic Electronics
Designing, Sketching, and Fabricating Circuits through Digital Exploration
Proxyprint
ProxyPrint
Supporting Crafting Practice through Physical Computational Proxies
Liveobjects
LiveObjects
Leveraging Theatricality for an Expressive Internet of Things
Hapticprint
HapticPrint
Designing Feel Aesthetics for 3D Printing
Metamorphe
MetaMorphe
Designing Expressive 3D Models for Digital Fabrication
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Fl.UIs
Liquid Mediated Vision-Based Touch Surfaces