This work demonstrates how and why the expertise of non-medical actors, such as patients, caregivers, and...
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The People Say: How We Built a Groundbreaking Public Research Platform to Catalyze Human-Centered Policymaking
The People Say is a pioneering research repository and a model for making rich qualitative data available for...
How to Avoid Path Dependency: Learnings from Neuroscience, Physics, and Organizational Theory
In 1814, the polymath Pierre Simon Laplace posited that “We may regard the present state of the universe as the...
Double Consciousness in Research and Design: Shifting toward Empowerment and Equity
Over a century after W.E.B. Du Bois developed the concept of double consciousness, this experience of “twoness”...
AI Tools in Humanistic and Social Research
We have all heard the drumbeat that “AI” systems like LLMs will have enormous implications for researchers and...
A Relational Approach to (genAI) Product Impact
AI product development is overwhelmingly framed as a problem of technical scale and muscle, and researchers are...
In Pursuit of Authenticity: Commodified Community, Curated Experience, and Fandom
This paper assesses the economic impacts of hyper-monetization, immersive advertising, and general shifts in...
Folded Map: Disrupting Chicago’s Friction Through Art
Tonika Johnson is a photographer, social justice artist and life-long resident of Chicago’s South Side Englewood...
Images and Imaginaries: Reflections on a New Paradigm of Ethnographic Images in Business
This presentation delves into the speculated impact of AI-generated images on ethnographic practice. Navigating...
Pulp Friction: Creating Space for Cultural Context, Values, and the Quirkiness of Humanity in AI Engagement
A design executive who has led several multidisciplinary teams and organizations at global companies such as...