This presentation delves into the speculated impact of AI-generated images on ethnographic practice. Navigating...
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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...
Foundational AI: Navigating a Shifting Terrain
New deployments of foundational AI models in digital products have expanded public engagement with synthetic...
Designing AI to Think With Us, Not For Us
This paper establishes a framework and toolkit for designing Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) that...
Reconfiguring Work in the Age of AI
What is the nature of expertise and work? How are they redefined, practiced, and personified as waves of...
Automate Yourself to Work on What You Love
Behind every great research session is multiple hours and weeks spent recruiting, sharing...
The New Truth Factory: When Insights Are Infinite, Who Decides What’s Real?
In human insight work, ‘truth’ has traditionally been a shared, stable artifact, built from ethnographic intelligence and contextual understanding. While interpretations have varied, organizations have relied on canonical user insights for decision-making. Generative AI disrupts this entirely....
Grounded AI: Integrating Data & Social Science
The expansion of AI in virtually all business and organizational environments represents an opportunity to...
Building Ethical Tech Through Subjective Research
There are myths and misconceptions around the objectivity of quantitative research and the neutrality of tech and the two are linked. At best they lead organizations to embrace half-truths, and at worst they result in discrimination. By embracing our humanity and using our own subjectivity to critically examine the ways we research, we can prioritize our work in a way that aligns with ethical values and brings humans to the center.
Generative AI, Cognitive Offloading, and the Future of Critical Thinking in Research and Society
Early in 2025, Prof. Dr. Michael Gerlich’s research documenting negative correlations between generative AI usage and critical thinking in knowledge work went viral. Research supporting his findings followed…but so did frequent misinterpretation in the polarized terrain of AI discourse. Gerlich...