by Joseph Lindley, Dhruv Sharma, Robert Potts | Jan 11, 2016 | Paper
Transmuting the entanglement of situations, contexts, artifacts and people, designers mediate the relationship between ‘what could be’ and ‘what is’. All design, then, has an implicit relationship with the future. Latency will always exist as part of this...
by Karl Mendonca | Jan 11, 2016 | Paper
In this paper, I will use an ethnographic research project to develop a set of foundational personas to work through the process of formulating insights that challenged the core epistemological assumptions of our stakeholders. Drawing on a rich body of discourse...
by Nora Morales | Jan 11, 2016 | PechaKucha
A question about how taxicabs look alike in different countries started a visual dialogue between two friends living in India and Mexico. Through their conversation, they discovered similar patterns on how each country is adapting to the promise of sharing economies....
by Ken Anderson | Jan 11, 2016 | Panel
Special Session: 10 Years of EPIC Part 1: ken anderson, Intel Part 2: Hiroshi Tamura, Re:public Inc. Part 3: Jeanette Blomberg, IBM Part 4: Simon Roberts, Stripe Partners Part 5: Panel Discussion
by Luciana Aguiar | Jan 11, 2016 | Keynote
Luciana Aguiar is Private Sector Partnerships Manager of the United Nations Development Programme in Brazil. She holds a PhD in anthropology from Cornell University and has decades of experience in ethnographic research and with “base of the pyramid” populations. Over...
