Focusing on the client-consultant relationship, well honed, but perhaps overly so, this paper aims to shed light on the conditions that at once streamline and challenge our collaborations. To do so, we borrow a page from the visual arts; namely an experimental method of representation called...
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The Space Between Mine and Ours: Exploring the Subtle Spaces Between the Private and the Shared in India
Starting from their interactions within shared spaces and use of shared objects, to large social networks, the Indian society has developed a range of ways to incorporate subtle gestures and systems into their lives that neither forces them to share all their time and space with everyone,...
Tutorial: Digital Ethnography in Domestic Spaces
Overview This tutorial explores research in people’s homes through digital methods. The instructors focus on how to utilize participant’s existing digital skills and materials to undertake ethnographic research...
At Home in the Field: From Objects to Lifecycles
In this paper, we explore how biographies of domestic objects are intertwined with the personal biographies of their owners and caretakers, narratives of household formation, and the life cycle of the family, and how we position the value of this work to business planners and engineers at Intel...
Ethnography’s Role in Seeing the AI’s Blind Spots: Living amongst AI—Agency of the Household
PechaKucha Presentation Home automation has made big promises for utilizing intelligent technology to help the lives of everyday people, but the potential of the technology can only be as good as our understanding of the world we are trying to improve. In this PechaKucha, I share insights from my...
Acknowledging Differences for Design: Tracing Values and Beliefs in Photo Use
This paper explores links between ethnographic approaches, technology design and use and values and beliefs. We document recent empirical work on the use of photographs amongst Chinese families; pointing to some differences with previous empirical studies from predominantly Western cultures and...
The Montage Workshop: The Recreation of Realization
This paper argues that we need to rethink our way of representing ethnographic data within user driven innovation processes (hereafter UDI process) in order to ensure that the complex life worlds of users inform the entire technical development process. To ensure this we argue that: We need to...
Beyond Walking With Video: Co-creating Representation
[contrib_author post_id='572' name='JONATHAN BEAN'] [s2If is_user_logged_in()]Download PDF[/s2If] This paper discusses a method I used to conduct a study of hygge, a Danish concept that is usually translated as “cosiness.” I wanted to learn more about hygge and how it related to technology...