Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2019 Providence | Agency

What does it mean to have agency in an increasingly automated world?

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Case Studies

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Boundary Crossings: Collaborative Robots and Human Workers

Bruce Pietrykowski & Michael Folster

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Bringing the Security Analyst into the Loop: From Human-Computer Interaction to Human-Computer Collaboration

Liz Rogers

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Can Any Hairdresser Fix a Car? Mechanics Seeking Agency in Automated Car Diagnostic Contexts

Chloé Huie Brickert & Guillaume Montagu

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Caregiver/Family Agency: Rebuilding Confidence, Play, Familiarity, and Passion in a Healthcare System

Adaheid L. Mestad & Amin Mojtahedi

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Designing for Dynamics of Agency in NYC Homeless Shelters

Natalia Radywyl

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Educating the Educators: An Entire Franchise Preschool System Embraces Ethnographic Insights to Improve Brand Experience and Drive Growth

Meg Kinney & Hal Phillips

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Empowered, Confident, and Prepared: Driving Chatbot Product Vision through User Research

Molly Mahar & Gregory A. Bennett

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Getting Us There: Ride-Hailing Systems from the Drivers’ Perspectives

Keith S. Karn & William E. Hutson

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More Than A Robot: Designing for the Unique Advantages of Sending Humans to Mars

Paige Pritchard et al.

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My AI versus The Company AI: How Knowledge Workers Conceptualize Forms of AI Assistance in the Workplace

Nanna Sandberg et al.

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Speculative Futures inside Corporate Realities

Ben Kuester & Megan Prescott

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Using Ethnography and Narrative Analysis to Uncover Customer Agency: Intrepid Travel

Alice Watson

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Weighing Decisions in Monitoring and Evaluation of Clean Cookstoves

Jennifer Ventrella et al.

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将（资讯）安全分析师考虑其中——从‘人机交互’到‘人机协作’

Liz Rogers


Papers

Paper

(Fr)agile objects: Thinking Scrum through Post-It Notes

Isabel Lafuente & Wilson Prata

Paper

A.I. among Us: Agency in a World of Cameras and Recognition Systems

Ken Anderson et al.

Paper

Agency and AI in Consulting: Pathways to Prioritize Agency-Enhancing Automations

Cengiz Cemaloglu et al.

Paper

Callibrating Agency: Human-Autonomy Teaming and the Future of Work

Lee Cesafsky et al.

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Designing Good Jobs: Participatory Ethnography and Prototyping in Service-oriented Work Ecosystems

Marta Cuciurean-Zapan & Victoria Hammel

Paper

Designing Queer Connection: An Ethnography of Dating App Production in Urban India

Vishnupriya Das

Paper

Ethnographic Agency in a Data Driven World

Nadine Levin

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Following the Invisible Road Rules In The Field: Using ANT For CTF

Amity Latham et al.

Paper

From ‘Cool Science’ to Changing the World: The Opportunity to Support Pre-Startup Science Commercialization

Simon Pulman-Jones & Amy Weatherup

Paper

Hearing Through Their Ears: Developing Inclusive Research Methods to Co-Create with Blind Participants

Gregory Weinstein

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Hybrid Methodology: Combining Ethnography, Cognitive Science, and Machine Learning to Inform the Development of Context-Aware Personal Computing and Assistive Technology

Maria Cury & Eryn Whitworth

Paper

Supporting Real-Time Contextual Inquiry through Sensor Data

Katerina Gorkovenko et al.

Paper

The Adaptation of Everyday Work in an Age of Automation

Tamara Moellenberg et al.

Paper

The Change before Behaviour: Closing the Value-Action Gap Using a Digital Social Companion

Györgyi Gálik

Paper

Toward Donut-Centered Design: A Design Research Toolkit for the 21st Century

Christopher A. Golias


PechaKucha

PechaKucha

“Resistance is Possible”: The Ethnography of Roleplaying

Nathan Leblanc

PechaKucha

Adapting to the Lack of Agency: Research in Prisons

Ruben Perez Huidobro

PechaKucha

Believe in A.I.: Will You Pray for a Chatbot?

Andre Torales

PechaKucha

Borders and Walls: What is the Agency of Architects in Geopolitical Conflicts?

Ane Gonzalez Lara

PechaKucha

Breaking the Language Barrier: India, The Digital Revolution and Human Agency

Shubhangi Athalye & Stuart Henshall

PechaKucha

Center Frame: Agency in the Lives of Researchers

Brandy Parker

PechaKucha

Change Agent: Lessons on Power and Failure from Eight Years of Systems Research & Policy Design

Chelsea Mauldin

PechaKucha

Creative Photography through Ethnographic Research

Gabriela Oliveira

PechaKucha

Data Walks into a Bar: A Love Story

Tabitha Steager

PechaKucha

Digital Selves and Distributed Agency: Redefining the Subject of Ethnography

Gunes Gocabag

PechaKucha

Ethnographic ‘Weirdness’: Attending to Indicators of the Unfamiliar

Charley Scull

PechaKucha

Ethnography’s Role in Seeing the AI’s Blind Spots: Living amongst AI—Agency of the Household

Laiyee Ho

PechaKucha

Nangi Village: A Story of Collective Agency in the Mountains of Nepal

Emelia Rallapalli

PechaKucha

Out to Dry: Change and Agency Across Urban China

Zach Hyman

PechaKucha

Remembering the Blister: How What Didn’t Kill Me Made Me Stronger

Marise Phillips

PechaKucha

Robots and the Fallacy of Agency

Stewart Allen

PechaKucha

Self Ethnography: Or, How I Earned My Berkeley Citizenship

Beth Schwindt


Panels

Panel

Agency and Innovation

Dawn Nafus et al.

Panel

Agency and the Climate Emergency

Dan Lockton et al.

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Reconceptualizing Privacy

Ken Anderson et al.


Film/Photography

Film/Photography

EPIC2019 Ethnographic Film

Ruchika Muchhala et al.


Special Sessions

Special Session

Gallery

Anja Maerz et al.