Beyond “It’s Complex”: How to Understand and Analyze Systems
How do we learn to see and act with and within systems? How can we apply this orientation at the outset of projects, through to creation of data, analysis, and measures...
Scale, Nuance, and New Expectations in Ethnographic Observation and Sensemaking
Case Study—We consider new expectations for ethnographic observation and sensemaking in the next 20-25 years, as technology industry ethnographers’ work...
Living Comfortably In Glass Houses
PechaKucha—Our homes are becoming instrumented glass houses where even the most intimate and personal acts may leave data footprints that companies providing services...
At Home in the Field: From Objects to Lifecycles
In this paper, we explore how biographies of domestic objects are intertwined with the personal biographies of their owners and caretakers, narratives of household...