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Unsettling the Past: Radically Reimagining Archaeological Knowledge
For decades, Black and Indigenous archaeologists have rightfully called for a radical reimagining of how…
Crisis and Opportunity—A Look at 2020
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The Coronavirus Pandemic
2020 will be remembered as the year that COVID-19…
Without Norms, Societies Fall Apart
From time to time, I meet an American who likes to tell me that the United Kingdom, the country of my birth, has a…
EPIC2020 Video and Proceedings Now Available on Demand!
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EPIC2020 was a truly a global ethnographic jamboree: on the 15th anniversary of our…
Debugging Distributed Teamwork: New Research
LEISA REICHELT, Chair
Atlassian
GILLIAN BOWAN
Atlassian
OWEN HODDA
ANZ
CHRIS MARMO
PaperGiant
JARROD PAYNE…
Human Action and the Dynamic Environment
ELIZABETH CHURCHILL, Chair
Google
CHRIS CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Cornell University
GAVIN MCCORMICK
WattTime
PAMELA…
Tutorial: Using a Mobile Research Platform for Multi-dimensional Ethnography
JULIA KATHERINE HAINES
Google
BOB EVANS
Google
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Tutorial: Introduction to Survey Design
JENNIFER HUNSECKER
Nielsen
LAUREN WALTON
Nielsen
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Tutorial: Digital Ethnography in Domestic Spaces
JENNY KENNEDY
RMIT University
ROWAN WILKEN
RMIT University
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Tutorial: Beyond “Quant-vs-Qual”—Creating Collaborative Inquiry
ALEX HUGHES
UC Berkeley
JENNY LO
Grammarly
WILL MONGE
Good Research
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Tutorial: Data and Ethnography for Better AI Product Development
OVETTA SAMPSON
Microsoft
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Ovetta Sampson…
Tutorial: Integrating Sustainability Perspectives in Ethnographic Work
MIKE YOUNGBLOOD
Youngblood Group
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Keynote Address: Bruce Pascoe
BRUCE PASCOE
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Going to Scale: Lessons from the Pandemic
GENEVIEVE BELL
Australia National University
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Scaling Futures: Foresight that Delivers Meaning and Value
RICH RADKA, Chair
Fuse Foresight
WENDY CHAMBERLIN
BOMA Project
GEMMA JOHN
Human City
RAMESH LOGANATHAN
IIIT…
Design & White Supremacy Culture: A Call and Response
AUTUMN SANDERS FOSTER, Chair
Quire Consulting
NANCY DOUYON
Douyon Signature Labs
ANGELA GIST-MACKEY
University…
Post-Human Centered
ALICIA DUDEK, Chair
Mycoreality
IAN BOGOS
Georgia Institute of Technology
SUSAN MOYLAN COOMBS
Gaimaragal Group…
Tutorial: Calibrating Ethnofutures
J.A. ENGLISH-LUECK
San Jose State University
ROD FALCON
Institute for the Future
ANDREW MARLEY
San Jose State…
Scaling through Meaning to Action: What the Australian Bushfires Taught Me about…
CHARLIE COCHRANE
Jump the Fence
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Scaling is Like Making Sourdough: Finding Sourdough Starters to Help Your Research…
KARYN GEORGILIS
Harvard Business School
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What Will 4 People Think / Chaar Log Kya Kahenge
SMRITI KAUL
Convo Research & Strategy Pvt Ltd
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Researching the Researcher: How I Used Data Analysis to Understand My Reading…
STEPHEN Ó MATHÚNA
Workday
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How Tragic Flaws Resonate at Scale: Just Ask Shakespeare
MEGAN DAVIS
Spendlove and Lamb
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Fighting Conspiracy Theories Online at Scale
REBEKAH PARK
Gemic
DAVID ZAX
ReD Associates
BETH GOLDBERG
Jigsaw
This 2019 project conducted in the US and the…
Harnessing Empathy To Scale A Healthtech Startup During The COVID-19 Pandemic: A…
NADYA POHRAN
University of Cambridge & SympTech Ltd
TIMOTHY BAKER
SympTech Ltd
SIMON PULMAN-JONES
Emergence…
Scaling Experience Measurement: Capturing and Quantifying User Experiences across…
REBECCA J HAZEN
Zillow Group
GENNY MANGUM
Zillow Group
TOM SOUHLAS
Zillow Group
Zillow is undergoing a major…
Who Cares Where?: A Pivotal Ethnographic Study for Italian Hospital Homecare
ISABEL FARINA
Experientia srl
ELENA MESSINA
Experientia srl
MICHELE VISCIOLA
Experientia srl
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Scaling Dignity: An Antidote to Poverty?
LORENN RUSTER
3A Institute, Australian National University
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Surveillance
SUSAN FAULKNER
Intel Corporation
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Enacting Scales: Reflections from an Anthropologist Working in Asia’s Ad World
TIFFANY TIVASURADEJ
Ogilvy
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Repurposing Risograph Machines: The Allure of Small-Scale Printmaking in the Era…
JOYCE S. LEE
University of California, Berkeley
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Toxicity v. toxicity: How Ethnography Can Inform Scalable Technical Solutions
JAMIE SHERMAN
Intel Corporation
ANNE MCCLARD
McClard LLC
While a number of scholars have studied online…
Sustainability: Addressing Global Issues At A Human Scale
LEE RYAN
More Things Considered
LOUISA WOOD
More Things Considered
Our tiny provocation is that the word…
From the Space Station to the Sofa: Scales of Isolation at Work
JO AIKEN
University College London/ETHNO-ISS (NASA)
ANGELA RAMER
HKS Architects
Since March 2020, many…
Empathy, More or Less: Scaling Intermediary Experiences of Emotion and Affect in…
LORA V. KOYCHEVA
Technical University of Munich
Questions of scale permeate current approaches to empathy in…
There’s No Playbook for Praxis: Translating Scholarship into Action to Build a…
JEFFREY GREGER
Varo
The US banking industry has a long history of excluding, exploiting, or simply ignoring…
The City as Organization: Ethnography for Alternative Futures
JORDAN SHADE
International Business Machines Corporation, A Functional Democracy
HAL WUERTZ
International Business…
Growing Communities: How Social Platforms Can Help Community Groups Achieve the…
CALEN COLE
Stripe Partners
CAROLYN WEI
Facebook
Supporting communities on its platforms has been a part of…
Ghost in the Machine: How Taxonomic Metadata Allows for Scaling Ethnographic…
AMANDA KRAUSS
Duo Security (formerly Indeed)
ALEXANDRA TEODORESCU
Indeed
LEORA YARDENAY
Indeed
This case study…
Software Quality and Its Entanglements in Practice
JULIA PRIOR
University of Technology Sydney
JOHN LEANEY
University of Technology Sydney
Effective software…
DIYing along with DIYers: Juggling with Scales During a Home-Improvement Research
GUILLAUME MONTAGU
_unknowns
As a team of researchers was asked by a French home-improvement retailer to…
Scaling Out (Not Only Up): Distributed Collaboration Models to Get Work Done
ALICIA DORNADIC
MindSpark
NIKKI LAVOIE
MindSpark
SHEILA SUAREZ DE FLORES
10 10 10, Eco.tter
ELVIN TUYGAN
MindSpark…
Where Can We Find an Ethics for Scale?: How to Define an Ethical Infrastructure…
IAN DULL
ReD Associates
FANI NTAVELOU BAUM
ReD Associates
THOMAS HUGHES
ReD Associates
Despite companies…
Who Gets to Define Success?: Listening to Stories of How People Value Firefox to…
GEMMA PETRIE
Mozilla Firefox
JENNIFER DAVIDSON
Mozilla Firefox
Challenging measures of scale is possible…
Scale and the Gaze of a Machine
RICHARD BECKWITH
Intel Labs
JOHN W. SHERRY
Intel Labs
Scale suffuses the work we do and, recently, has us…
Postcards from Isolation: Digital Artefacts from the Lockdown Time
ANNA WOJNAROWSKA
Google
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Ten People Thick: Design for Change
SUE WITTENOOM
The Soft Build
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Leveling Up Your Research and Research Operations: Strategies for Scale
BRIGETTE METZLER
Services Australia, University of Queensland.
With user research becoming more common within…
Everybody’s a Winner: How Unidimensional Scaling up as an Entrepreneurial Rite of…
GITIKA SAKSENA
LagomWorks Consulting & SOAS University of London
ABHISHEK MOHANTY
LagomWorks Consulting &…