Visions that highlight new technological capabilities often depict frictionless futures in which data,...
![Anticipation for Grand Challenges: An Ethnographic Study of Future-Making Practices in a Technology Company](https://www.epicpeople.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/steve-johnson-jPT1hVOhqb0-unsplash.jpg)
Visions that highlight new technological capabilities often depict frictionless futures in which data,...
Imagine you are dealing with bladder or bowel problems, and while sometimes your life is joyful, you also...
Ethnography can be a divining rod for the future. Though speculative, the study of cultural signals to seed...
This presentation delves into the speculated impact of AI-generated images on ethnographic practice. Navigating...
This paper shares a framework for constructive friction processes. In the framework, constructive friction is...
I Don’t Know What To Do… The moment she heard the beep come through her headset, Tess switched gears immediately. Moments earlier, she’d just wrapped up a non-emergency 101 call with a man who had found himself face to face with a weasel in his back garden. She and her colleagues had been shaking...
This ethnographic case study discusses friction in everyday information-seeking on smartphones and proposes new...
This paper provides a theoretical alternative to the prevailing perception of machine learning as synonymous with...
This paper demonstrates the value of ethnography for housing and property development markets where urbanization...
This case study examines the use of iterative prototyping to raise concerns important to adolescents and...