Contextual Breathing: The Importance of Opening in an Increasingly Closed World
APRIL JEFFRIES Ipsos Understanding Unlimited Please sign in or become an EPIC Member to access video. PechaKucha Presentation Context cannot be ignored. …
NYAS Lecture 1/28: Urban (In)Equality and Materiality: A Global, Deep Time Perspective
It’s the beginning of a new year and the New York Academy of Sciences is back with another great installment
Book Review: Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
In Strangers in their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the ‘deep story’ behind the rise of …
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The Dirt
To keep practitioners up-to-date, Discard Studies publishes The Dirt, a monthly compilation of recent publications, positions, opportunities, and calls for proposals in …
Arbetslösheten är nu den allra lägsta på 10 år men samtidigt kvarstår de extrema skillnaderna mellan de inrikes födda och utomeuropéerna: Av samtliga arbetslösa är idag 47% födda utanför Europa och av samtliga utrikes födda arbetslösa är hela 81% numera födda utanför Europa
Den svenska ekonomin är uppenbarligen fortsatt ”urstark” (och Sverige är m a o fortfarande ett av världens rikaste länder) – det handlar …
How Is Evidence Created, Used & Abused? EPIC2018 Opening Remarks
by DAWN NAFUS (Intel), EPIC2018 Co-chair We chose Evidence as the EPIC2018 theme in part to explore this question of why some …
Automating Inequality
VIRGINIA EUBANKS University of Albany, SUNY EPIC2018 Keynote Please sign in or become an EPIC Member to access video. Virginia Eubanks is …
Just Add Water: Lessons Learned from Mixing Data Science and Design Research Methods to Improve Customer Service
OVETTA SAMPSON IDEO Chicago and DePaul University Case Study—This case study provides an inside look at what occurs when methods from the …
Designing for Interactions with Automated Vehicles: Ethnography at the Boundary of Quantitative-Data-Driven Disciplines
MARKUS ROTHMÜLLER School of Architecture, Design and Planning, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark and Shift Insights & Innovation Consulting PERNILLE HOLM RASMUSSEN School …
The Root Cause is Capitalism… and Patriarchy
LINDSEY WALLACE, PHD Adobe Design Research & Strategy Team JENNA MELNYK Adobe Design Research & Strategy Team Case Study—The authors used anthropology …
Scale, Nuance, and New Expectations in Ethnographic Observation and Sensemaking
ALEXANDRA ZAFIROGLU Intel Corporation YEN-NING CHANG Intel Corporation Case Study—We consider new expectations for ethnographic observation and sensemaking in the next 20-25 …
Gaming Evidence: Power, Storytelling and the “Colonial Moment” in a Chicago Systems Change Project
NATHAN HEINTZ Systems Change Consultant Case Study—In 2016 The Chicago Community Trust (“The Trust”), a local Chicago foundation, partnered with Roller Strategies (“Roller”), …
The Transformative Power of Singular Stories: Making the Case for Qualitative Evidence in Healthcare Contexts in Colombia
JULIANA CARDONA A Piece of Pie JULIANA SALDARRIAGA A Piece of Pie MARIA FERNANDA ESTUPIÑAN A Piece of Pie PAULA GAMBOA A …
Human-Centered Data Science: A New Paradigm for Industrial IoT
MATTHEW YAPCHAIAN Uptake Few professions appear more at odds, at least on the surface, than ethnography and data science. The first deals …
Physicalizations of Big Data in Ethnographic Context
JACOB BUUR Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark SARA SAID MOSLEH Design and Communication, University of Southern Denmark CHRISTINA FYHN NIELSEN …
Operationalizing Ethnographic Research to Grow Trust in Digital Financial Services
SOREN HEITMANN International Finance Corporation SINJA BURI International Finance Corporation GISELA DAVICO International Finance Corporation FABIAN REITZUG International Finance Corporation Ca…
5 Tips to Smash out Your PhD in Anthropology
I suspect thesis writing progression is a bit like sustainable weight loss. Calorie or step counting isn’t nearly as effective as getting …
Il potenziale politico della responsabilità nell’umanitarismo interno
Operazione Confini Sovrani Sebbene fosse una fredda notte invernale, la coda arrivava fin oltre l’angolo. Prendendo posto all’interno del magazzino di Melbourne …
Picturing Change, Seeing Continuity: Hmong Story Cloths
It is a new year and a new semester at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and that means new exhibitions! There …
Eye Tracking in Medical Ethnography: Evaluating Evidence for Perception, Action, and Collaboration in Healthcare Professions
LARRY S. MCGRATH Design Science Consulting, Inc. Using eye tracking in ethnographic research poses numerous theoretical and practical challenges. How might devices …
Human Sensemaking in the Smart City: A Research Approach Merging Big and Thick Data
ANNELIEN SMETS imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel BRAM LIEVENS imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the …
Contextual Analytics: Towards a Practical Integration of Human and Data Science Approaches in the Development of Algorithms
MILLIE P. ARORA MIKKEL KRENCHEL JACOB MCAULIFFE ReD Associates POORNIMA RAMASWAMY Cognizant As algorithms play an increasingly important role in the lives …
Who and What Drives Algorithm Development: Ethnographic Study of AI Start-up Organizational Formation
RODNEY SAPPINGTON Founder, CEO, Acesio Inc. LAIMA SERKSNYTE Head of Behavioral and Organizational Research, Acesio Inc. The focus of this paper is …