This paper argues that first-person data—video, audio, and other data that is recorded from the research...
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Grounded Models: The Future of Sensemaking in a World of Generative AI
The promise of generative AI technologies is seductive to product leaders: frictionless research in which...
Intergenerational Living: Thai Cultural Frictions and Taboos in Changing Times
This paper demonstrates the value of ethnography for housing and property development markets where urbanization...
The Transformative Power of Friction: Inclusive Community Centered Visioning in Manhattan’s Chinatown
This case study discusses how friction plays a transformative role in reshaping relational dynamics within the...
Mosaic Atlas: Mapping Inclusive Arts Hubs
The Mosaic Atlas is the brainchild of Mosaic America, initiated by a group of immigrant women in an organization...
Beyond Representation: Using Infrastructure Studies to Reframe Ethnographic Agendas and Outcomes
The ethos and methods of participatory research have been widely embraced as a powerful approach to address systemic inequity in the design of technology. While there have been many gains and developments that...
The Ethnography of a ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ (DAO): De-mystifying Algorithmic Systems
This paper details ethnographic methods, experiences, and insights from an ethnographer and an industry engaged complex systems engineer in how to study resilience in blockchain-based DAOs as a novel field site....
Designing for Interactions with Automated Vehicles: Ethnography at the Boundary of Quantitative-Data-Driven Disciplines
Case Study—This case study presents ethnographic work in the midst of two fields of technological innovation: automated vehicles (AV) and virtual reality (VR). It showcases the work of three MSc. Techno-Anthropology students and their collaboration with the EU H2020 project ‘interACT’, sharing the...
Designed for Care: Systems of Care and Accountability in the Work of Mobility
In this paper we explore the idea of a system of care through a city transit system. We argue that a systematic orientation to care is central to what makes a transit system work for people. Further, we suggest that this care orientation is recognized as such, even though it is not apparent in...
Human API as a Research Source in Health Care
This paper illustrates how the concept of “Human API” can help post-treatment cancer patients with challenges they face once they are released from the hospital. The results and implications of this semester long graduate project will help illuminate how the Human API through its various data...