Scott Mainwaring
Location: (Beaverton, OR)
Personal Research Web Page: http://scott.mainwaring.name/about
Keywords: financial services innovation; personal meaning; sustainability and consumerism; technosocial infrastructures; ethnography and design
Posted on: Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Broad Research Area: HCI / CSCW, Mobile / Ubiquitous / Embedded Computing, Social Computing / Social Informatics, Technology Policy
Research Interests:
Scott Mainwaring has a broad and eclectic background in computer, cognitive, and social sciences. For the last 15 years, Scott has applied his skills in ethnographic inquiry and analysis to the revolutionary potential for information and computing technologies in everyday life. At Interval Research Corporation, where he was a postdoc and later staff researcher, Scott collaborated with designers, business planners, engineers, and documentary filmmakers to design domesticated media spaces, virtual worlds, ICT-augmented television, and services for the Baby Boom generation. At Intel, Scott explores the relationships between individuals and the systems in which they find themselves embedded. For the past several years, Scott has been researching emerging technologies of digital money and financial inclusion and how they play upon money’s emotional, cultural, and religious meanings. His current focus is on the processes creating and disrupting “middle class” consumers in both developed and developing countries, and how ICTs are implicated in them. Scott has an A.B. in computer science from Harvard University and a PhD in cognitive psychology from Stanford University.
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