Acknowledgments

We'd like to thank each of the chapter authors for Embodied Computing. They have made a significant contribution and showed unending patience as we finished the book. For that, we are grateful. We'd also like to thank the MIT Press and our editors, Doug Sery and Noah Springer, as well as Elizabeth Agresta, Susan Clark, Bridget Leahy, and the anonymous reviewers who provided rich insights into the collection and the work surrounding it. The book started as a symposium organized by the Decimal Lab at Ontario Tech University. We'd like to thank each of the presenters at that symposium, including Donald Braxton, Gary Genosko, Brian Greenspan, Stuart Murray, Marcel O'Gorman, and Tom Sherman. Nene Brode, Judy Ehrentraut, Kirsten Ellison, Steven Richardson, and Laura Tsang presented in the graduate student conference portion of the event. We thank Olexander Wlasenko and Whitby Station Gallery, who partnered with Decimal Lab to host an exhibit of artwork by Maggie Chan, Izzie Colpitts-Campbell, Kate Hartman, Erin Lewis, Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof, Jessica Thompson, Robert Tu, and Amelia Zhang. We'd also like to thank our schools and departments, Communication and Digital Media Studies in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University and the Department of Media Studies and Production in the Lew Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Portions from our introduction draw from our article “The Fabric of Digital Life: Uncovering Sociotechnical Tradeoffs in Embodied Computing through Metadata” (June 3, 2018), Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 16, no. 3. On a personal note, we'd like to thank some of our collaborators and mentors for their many conversations, including Dawn Armfield, Sharon Caldwell, Jayden Cooper, Marcel Danesi, Ann Hill Duin, Quinn DuPont, R. Bruce Elder, Jan Fernback, Ihor Junyk, Tracey P. Lauriault, Tony Liao, Matthew Lombard, Sorin Adam Matei, Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Tanner Mirrlees, Andrea Slane, Peter Stoett, Peter Turk, and Daniel W. Smith. This research was undertaken, in part, thanks to funding from the Canada Research Chairs program and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.