Agency and Innovation
EPIC2019 Panel, Providence, Rhode Island Robotics, machine learning, and other technologies are provoking new hopes and fears about human agency. Tropes of the ...
How Is Evidence Created, Used & Abused? EPIC2018 Opening Remarks
We chose Evidence as the EPIC2018 theme in part to explore this question of why some things constitute evidence and not others. There are lots of factors we cou...
Data Science and Ethnography: What’s Our Common Ground, and Why Does It Matter?
As EPIC2018 program co-chairs, we developed the conference theme Evidence to explore how evidence is created, used, and abused. We’ll consider the core types ...
Doing Design Research in a Cognitive World
EPIC2017 Platinum Panel Overview Increasingly, experiences are being created that incorporate augmented intelligence, promising to make us smarter, more efficie...
Tutorial: Getting Started with Sensor Data
Overview Activity trackers, instrumented environments, and other kinds of electronic monitors offer new possibilities and new challenges for ethnographic resear...
The Domestication of Data: Why Embracing Digital Data Means Embracing Bigger Questions
The EPIC community has been wrestling with ways to integrate quantitative and qualitative methods in light of the increasing role that digital data plays in bus...
Quantified, behind the Scenes
*Join Dawn Nafus on September 1 when she hosts Ethnography & Quantified Self at EPIC2016. A few years ago, a colleague had asked me about the adoptability...
Data, Data, Everywhere, but Who Gets to Interpret It?
There has been a good deal of discussion of the relationship between the EPIC community and new practices of big data. Will the data scientists have the final w...
Abstract 2.0: If We Are All Shouting, Is there Anyone Left to Listen?
This paper explores notions of ‘voice’ as it relates to Web 2.0. We begin by tracing the social meanings of Web 2.0 technologies Brazil. There the notions o...
The Real Problem: Rhetorics of Knowing in Corporate Ethnographic Research
This paper explores discourses of the ‘real’ in commercial ethnographic research, and the transitions and transformations those discourses make possible and...
Consumerization and Renewing Peoples and Practices Research
This paper documents the beginnings of Intel’s recently launched Consumerization project, and uses these early experiences as a way into exploring new paths t...
Numbers Have Qualities Too: Experiences with Ethno-Mining
Field research holds a special place for those who conduct it. It is also our anchor for relevance in the corporation. This paper explores the authors’ experi...