Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2006 Portland | Transitions

Transitions explores change from micro to macro levels, connecting organizational to cultural and social transformation.

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‘Global Events Local Impacts’: India’s Rural Emerging Markets

Nimmi Rangaswamy & Kentaro Toyama

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“Why Are You Taking My Picture?”: Navigating the Cultural Contexts of Visual Procurement

Jay Hasbrouck & Susan Faulkner

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A Sum Greater than the Parts: Combining Contextual Inquiry with Other Methods to Maximize Research Insights into Social Transitions

Erin Leedy & Theo Downes-Le Guin

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At Home in the Field: From Objects to Lifecycles

Alexandra Zafiroglu & Ashwini Asokan

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Between Cram School and Career in Tokyo

Diane J. Schiano et al.

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Cultural Transitions – WWMD? Ethical Impulses and the Project of Ethnography in Industry

Melissa Cefkin

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Design for Healthy Living: Mobility and the Disruption of Daily Healthcare Routines

Ame Elliott & Brinda Dalal

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Embed: Mapping the Future of Work and Play: A Case for “Embedding” Non-Ethnographers in the Field

Andrew Greenman & Scott Smith

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Experience Models: Where Ethnography and Design Meet

Rachel Jones

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From Ancestors to Herbs: Innovation According to the ‘Protestant Re-formation’ of African Medicine

Stokes Jones

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From Ethnographic Insight to User-centered Design Tools

Robin Beers & Pamela Whitney

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Larger than Life: Personal and Social Transitions within Type 2 Diabetes

Lisa Reichenbach & Amy Maish

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Online Place and Person-Making: Matters of the Heart and Self-Expression

Rachel Jones & Martin Ortlieb

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Power Point and the Crafting of Social Data

Nina Wakeford

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Skillful Strategy, Artful Navigation & Necessary Wrangling

Suzanne L. Thomas & Tony Salvador

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Sunday is Family Day

Crysta J. Metcalf & Gunnar Harboe

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The Real Problem: Rhetorics of Knowing in Corporate Ethnographic Research

Dawn Nafus & Ken Anderson

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The Yin and Yang of Seduction and Production: Social Transitions of Ethnography between Seductive Play and Productive Force in Industry

Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall

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Transitions/Translations/Gaps: Ethnographic Representations in the Pharmaceutical Industry

John P. Wendel & Lisa Jane Hardy

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Walking the Interface: Uncovering Practices through ‘Proxy Technology Assessment’

Jo Pierson et al.

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We We We All The Way Home: The “We” Affect in Transitional Spaces

Ken Anderson & Rogério De Paula


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