EPIC2024 Los Angeles | Foundations, Displacement, Generation

At EPIC2024 we re-examined foundations, reckoned with displacement, and crafted new capacities for generation.

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Keynotes

Keynote

Fallen Fruit: Keynote Address

David Allen Burns & Austin Young

Keynote

The City as Supply Chain: Fast Circulation, Slow Violence, and Urban Futures

Charmaine Chua

Keynote

Key Words & Change

Maria Bezaitis

Case Studies

Case Study

Ethnographic Perspectives on AI Chatbots in Customer Support

David Rheams

Case Study

Sensemaking Through Collaborative Generation

Jenny Flinders & Jacqueline Counts

Case Study

Software Documentation and its Cultural Implications for an Agile Startup

Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya & Suzanne Walsh

Case Study

Mother Tongue: Vernacular Knowledge in Chronic Illness and Healthcare

Juliana Saldarriaga

Case Study

The People Say: A Public Research Platform for Human-Centered Policymaking

Chelsea Mauldin et al.

Case Study

Transformative Potential of Participatory Research in International Development

Oluchi Audu

Case Study

Human Experience of Medicaid Renewals: A Data-Driven, Human-Centered Approach to Service Delivery

Alyssa Kropp et al.

Papers

Paper

"I Pick My Poison": Agency and Addiction in the Age of Subscriptions

Iveta Hajdakova & Morgan Williams

Paper

AI Mental Models and Trust: Promises and Perils of Interaction Design

Soojin Jeong & Anoop Sinha

Paper

Cybersafety in Conversation: Unifying People and Policy

Colin MacArthur & Melissa Banyard

Paper

Decolonizing LLMs: An Ethnographic Framework for AI in African Contexts

Lindsey Dewitt Prat et al.

Paper

Democratization and Research

Nadine Levin

Paper

Designing AI to Think With Us, Not For Us

Stefanie Hutka

Paper

Displacing the Mind to the Body: Methodologies to Address Socio-Ecological Crises

Nora Morales & Blanca Miedes

Paper

Estimating Return on Ethnographic Investment: Human(e) Ways to Measure Our Impact

Katherine Metzo

Paper

Ethnographers as Intermediaries: Plurality as a Double-Edged Sword in Web3

Mrinalini Tankha & Chris Rogers

Paper

Experts in the Loop: Why Humans Will Not Be Displaced by Machines

Tom Hoy & Janneke Van Hofwegen

Paper

Playing Language Games: Conversational AI and Knowledge Sharing

Larry S. McGrath

Paper

Seeing from Other Eyes: First-Person Data in Applied Ethnography

Maria Cury et al.

Paper

What’s Going on with Strategic Research In Big Tech?

Morgan Ramsey-Elliot et al.

Paper

Why Don't We Post: Multidimensional Context Collapse and the Paradigm of Social Media

Kristin Sarmiento et al.

PechaKucha

PechaKucha

How to Avoid Path Dependency: Learnings from Neuroscience, Physics, and Organizational Theory

Cyril Maury

PechaKucha

Exploring Empathy Work in Customer Support

Nicole Laborde et al.

PechaKucha

A History of EPIC in 20 Unwritten Proposals

Evan Hanover

Areal view of earth with clouds partially covering ocean and land

PechaKucha

Kites Rise against the Wind: 20 Years of Research

Leah McDougald & Mackenzie Shaw

PechaKucha

What Broken Screens Reveal about Digital Matter

Pierre Bonnier

PechaKucha

Saving (Tattoo) Clients from Themselves

Dustin Kiskaddon

PechaKucha

Forget Nature, Forget Humans: Redefining Our Approach to Biodiversity

Marc-Antoine Morier

PechaKucha

If Today’s Problems Are So Urgent, Why Are We So Stuck?

Meg Kinney

PechaKucha

Sankofa; Look Back, Side-Eye the Future

Sasha Ofori

PechaKucha

An Apprenticeship in Attention for a Time between Worlds

Indigo Weller

Panels

Panel

Orality, Technology, and Memory

Brittany Edwards et al.

Learning Week (Tutorials, Talks/Seminars)

Talk/Seminar

Cyborg Literacy for the 21st Century

Laura Forlano & Danya Glabau

Talk/Seminar

Double Consciousness in Research and Design

Michele Y Washington et al.

Talk/Seminar

AI Tools in Humanistic and Social Research

Peter Leonard et al.

Talk/Seminar

A Relational Approach to (genAI) Product Impact

Teruko Mitsuhara et al.

Talk/Seminar

Understanding Your Business Stakeholders

Alexandra Mack

Talk/Seminar

Career Pivots: Government & NGOs

Yookyung Bang & Bec Purser

Talk/Seminar

Crafting a Trauma-Informed Scope of Practice

Rachael Dietkus

Talk/Seminar

Graphic Ethnography

Caroline Schuster & Chitra Venkatarami

Talk/Seminar

Ethnographic Thinking

Jay Hasbrouck

Talk/Seminar

Catalyzing Organizational Learning

Robin Beers

Tutorial

Inclusive Research Techniques

Erica McCoy & Greg Weinsten

Tutorial

Activating Research Insights for Business Impact

Shipra Kayan

Tutorial

Understanding and Analyzing Systems

Jessamy Perriam & Alexandra Zafiroglu

Tutorial

Product Thinking for Ethnographers

Chris Butler

Tutorial

Thinking and Communicating with Visual Frameworks

Erin Hackett & Mujtaba Hameed

Tutorial

Storytelling for Impact

Liz Lewis

Sponsored

Provocations, Parables and Possibilities

Julie Norvaisas

Sponsored

Impact Tracking: Tradition to Innovation

Sam Ladner & Jeanne Bard

Sponsored

Integrating Ethnography & Futures Thinking

Michael Hallam & Freya Williams

Sponsored

Visual Ethnography for Consumer Insights

Victoria Billones & Greg Hasty

Sponsored

Should We Measure Research Impact?

Sarah Stewart et al.

Sponsored

Grounded AI

Qamar Zaman & Tom Hoy

Sponsored

Building Trust in AI

Emily Witt & Aekta Shah

Sponsored

The New AI Toolstack for Research

Prayag Narula

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