Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Advancing the Value of Ethnography

EPIC2015 São Paulo | Building Bridges

EPIC2015 explores the diverse connections among people, places, industries, and disciplines at the heart of ethnographic practice.

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Welcome & Theme

Welcome & Theme

The EPIC2015 Conversation

Maria Bezaitis et al.


Keynotes

Keynote

Bridging Past and Future

Elizabeth F. Churchill

Keynote

Keynote Address

Luciana Aguiar

Keynote

Three Truths and One Lie

Luis Arnal


Papers

Paper

A Seat at the Table of Social Change through Service Design

Jeanette Blomberg & Chuck Darrah

Paper

Autonomous Vehicle Study Bridges Industry & Academia

Brigitte Jordan & Christina Wasson

Paper

Bridging Ethnography and Path-finding Business Opportunities

Ken Anderson et al.

Paper

Building Bridges between Management and the Workforce

Laura Ciria-suárez & Robert Andrew Bell

Paper

Challenges to Internet Connectivity in the Himalayan Foothills

Min Lieskovsky et al.

Paper

Enabling Ethnography in Small Budget Economies

Daniela Cuaron et al.

Paper

Enriching Ethnography in Marginalized Communities with Surrealist Techniques

Andrea Judice et al.

Paper

Ethnographic Expertise as Visionary Catalyst of Collaboration

Jonathan Leroy Biderman

Paper

Fieldnotes as a Social Practice

Maria Cury

Paper

From UI to UX

Kirsten Bandyopadhyay & Rebecca Buck

Paper

Goodbye Empathy, Hello Ownership: How Ethnography Really Functions in the Making of Entrepreneurs

Hiroshi Tamura et al.

Paper

How to Create Value via Object Circulation in Gift-Systems

Daiane Scaraboto & Bernardo Figueiredo

Paper

Knee Deep in the Weeds

Tiffany Romain & Mike Griffin

Paper

Knowing That and Knowing How: Towards Embodied Strategy

Simon Roberts & Tom Hoy

Paper

Moments of Disjuncture

Shaheen Amirebrahimi

Paper

Operationalizing Design Fiction with Anticipatory Ethnography

Joseph Lindley et al.

Paper

People, the Weak Link in Cyber-security

Susan Squires & Molly Shade

Paper

Radical Insights: Towards a Critical Hermeneutic

Karl Mendonca

Paper

Redefining the Ivorian Smallholder Cocoa Farmer’s Role in Qualitative Research

Hannah Pick Calderón & Landry Niava

Paper

Shared Ethnography of Shared Cities

Robert Potts et al.

Paper

Tangible Tools in Para-Ethnographic Fieldwork

Patricia Lima & Wafa Said Mosleh

Paper

The Media Landscape under Threat

Maria Eitzinger

Paper

The Missing Tool in the Design Leadership Toolbox

Susana La Luz-Hawkins