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Department of Science and Technology Studies

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Phoebe Sengers


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Phoebe Sengers

Associate Professor
Science & Technology Studies and
Computing and Information Science

Sengersemail: pjs54@cornell.edu
phone: 607-255-6554
room: 301 College Avenue

Office Hours, Spring 2012: By appointment

Education:

  • Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
  • B.S., Johns Hopkins University

Graduate Fields:

  • Science & Technology Studies
  • Computer Science
  • Information Science

 

Research Interests

Professor Phoebe Sengers integrates IT design with analysis of the cultural and historical context of technology, particularly in the context of North American consumer culture. A major component of her current work is a long-term design-ethnographic and -historical study of sociotechnological change in the small, traditional fishing community of Change Islands, Newfoundland. Professor Sengers received an NSF CAREER award for using cultural theory to inform the design of domestic technology and has been a Faculty Fellow in the Cornell Society for the Humanities. Professor Sengers is cross-appointed with Information Science, in the field of Computer Science, and is affiliated with Visual Studies and Art.

Recent Courses Taught

  • Fall 2009 - (STS 6341) Information Technology in Sociocultural Context
    TR: 11:40-12:55, 4 Credits

Selected Publications

  • Narrative Intelligence (with Michael Mateas).  Advances in Consciousness Series.  Amsterdam:  John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003. 

  • "Making Epistemological Trouble: Third-Paradigm HCI as Successor Science" (with Steve Harrison and Deborah Tatar).  In Interacting with Computers, special issue on Feminism and HCI, forthcoming. 

  • "Interfaces with the Ineffable: Meeting Aesthetic Experience on its Own Terms (with Kirsten Boehner and Simeon Warner).  ACM Trans. Computer-Human Interaction.Vol. 15, No. 3,November 2008, pp. 1-29.

  • "The Disenchantment of Affect," (with Kirsten Boehner, Michael Mateas, and Geri Gay).  In Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Special Issue on Enchantment.  Vol. 12, No. 5, June 2008, pp. 347-358.

  • "How Emotion is Made and Measured," (with Kirsten Boehner, Rogerio DePaula, and Paul Dourish).  International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Special Issue on Evaluating Affective Interactions.  April 2007, pp. 275-291.

  • "Making by Making Strange: Defamiliarization and the Design of Domestic Technology," (with Genevieve Bell, and Mark Blythe).  ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Special issue on Social Issues and HCI, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 149-173.

  • "Affective Presence in Museums: Ambient Systems for Creative Expression" (with Kirsten Boehner and Geri Gay).  Digital Creativity, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2005, pp. 79-89.