Towards a caring and inspiring Digital Society
Welcome to Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk’s website! Intimate Computing is about digital technologies that in some sense “come close” to us in our daily lives. Examples are quantified self, mobile location sharing apps, social media, wearables and high-tech clothing, as well as behaviour support technology such as smart homes.
I posit that the intimate nature of these technologies makes us vulnerable in specific ways. In line with this idea, I put forward a vision of intimate computing as computing with vulnerability. This means that intimate technologies should take into account human vulnerabilities, allowing people to reflect on and actively shape their vulnerable existence in interaction with these technologies. In this way, we create a caring and inspiring digital society that embraces softness and vulnerability, allowing us to feel wonder and tenderness in our intimate technological experiences.
Do you want to know more? Then take a look at the research page or read more about me!
I wish you an inspiring site visit,
Birna van Riemsdijk
Associate professor Intimate Computing, University of Twente
Latest News
Infographic Value-aware personal agents!
Symposium ‘Being human in the digital society’
Postdoc position on Designing Intimate Technologies through Dance
2020 Best Paper Award IEEE Computer
PhD position on Non-Monotonic Reasoning for Personal Agents
New preprints on Social Situation Awareness!
U-Today interview about underfunding of academia
OneWorld interview: Big Questions in AI
New publications on Social Situation Awareness!
