EPIC2017 Montreal | Perspectives

Perspectives explores the vantage points that empower and constrain our work and our organizations. What comes of changing scope; shifting positions; subverting norms?

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Keynotes

Keynote

Consumer Culture and Political Resistance: How Gay Entrepreneurs Sparked A Movement

David Johnson

Keynote

Culinary Habits and Feral Cakes

Dana Sherwood

Keynote

Pedestrian Perspectives

Melissa Cefkin

Keynote

Racist by Design—Why We Need a New Economic System for the 21st Century

Carolyn Rouse

Case Studies

Case Study

“Delivering the Secret Sauce”: Culture and Identity in a Corporate Merger

Barry Dornfeld

Case Study

“Thinking Outside the Camp”: Education Solutions for Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer

Case Study

Bringing Attention to Problem Solving and Meaningfulness at Work

Carole Charland & Karen Hofman

Case Study

Changing the Perspective of Government

Emma Saunders et al.

Case Study

Creating a Creators’ Market: How Ethnography Gave Intel a New Lens on Digital Content Creators

Ken Anderson et al.

Case Study

Imagining a Gym for the Spirit, Mind, and Body for the 21^st Century

Alejandro Jinich

Case Study

It’s Not Childs’ Play: Changing Corporate Narratives Through Ethnography

Anne Page Mcclard & Thérèse Dugan

Case Study

No One Reason for It: Workforce Diversity, Cultural Complexity, and Staff Retention at BMW MINI

Fiona Moore

Case Study

Outside the Bubble: How a Coastal Technology Company Built Empathy in America’s Heartland

Katherine Lee

Case Study

The Inhuman Condition: How Research Unlocked New Perspectives on Psoriasis

Sarah Kelleher

Case Study

The Lifecycle of a Washing Machine: Transforming Customer Experience

Beth Kelley & Jennifer Buchanan

Papers

Paper

A Mixed Method Approach for Identifying Emerging Fields and Building Collaborative Teams

Therese Kennelly Okraku et al.

Paper

Autonomous Individuals in Autonomous Vehicles

Erik Stayton et al.

Paper

Consumer Finance in a Mobile Age: Methods for Researching Changing User Behaviour

Erin B. Taylor

Paper

Doing Good is Hard: Ethics, Activism, and Social Impact Design

Jeffrey Greger

Paper

Ethnographic Tools: From Insight to Intervention

Wafa Said Mosleh

Paper

Five Steps Behind: How Ethnography Can Fuel Innovation Early in the Value Chain

Martin N. Millard & Yosha Gargeya

Paper

Seeing and Being Agents of Hope: Human-Centered Designers, Transportation and Drip Irrigation

Emilie Hitch

Paper

Situated: Reconsidering Context in the Creation and Interpretation of Design Fictions

Marta Cuciurean-Zapan

Paper

Surveillance, Technology, and American Conceptions of Freedom

Mike Griffin

Paper

The Ethnographer’s Spyglass: Insights and Distortions from Remote Usability Testing

Christopher A. Golias

Paper

The Mixed-Up Files of a 21st Century Librarian: Changing Demographics, Conceptions of Democracy, and The Public Library

Alannah Berson

Paper

The Object of Research: Considering Material Engagement Theory and Ethnographic Method

Jonathan Bean et al.

Paper

The View From The Studio: Design Ethnography and Organizational Cultures

AnneMarie Dorland

Paper

To Have and Have Not: Exploring Grammars of Sharing in the Context of Urban Mobility

Anna Zavyalova

Paper

Towards Multi-Dimensional Ethnography

Julia Katherine Haines

Paper

When ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes’: Performance, Complicity and Constraints on Communication in Corporate Attempts at Innovation

Josh Kaplan

PechaKucha

PechaKucha

Place Label Here: Our Use of Labels at Work

Daniela Cuaron & Nik Jarvie-Waldrom

PechaKucha

A Dirty Perspective on a too-Clean World

Line Groes & Emilie Stuhr Andersen

PechaKucha

Can Cheaters Prosper In Cambodia?

Lauren Markofsky

PechaKucha

Emotional Landscapes: Observing and Capturing the Emotionality of Experience

Bridget Monahan

PechaKucha

Ghostly Spectres: On Ethnography and Identity

Es Braziel

PechaKucha

Indian Classical Dance: The Foundational Element in My Practice of Ethnography

Vyjayanthi Vadrevu

PechaKucha

Instax as Objects of Record

David Peter Simon

PechaKucha

Shopping as a Modern Quest

Alexandra Mack

PechaKucha

Should User Research Be Funny?

Meghan McGrath

PechaKucha

The Big “I Don’t Wanna”

Enrico Cullen

PechaKucha

The Challenged Role of Ethnography in Startup Centric Innovation

Heinrich Schwarz

PechaKucha

Time for a Digital Detox: Burnout, Addiction, and Desperation in Silicon Valley

Shaheen Amirebrahimi

PechaKucha

Using Your Feet: Subverting the Structure of Meetings to Help Teams Go Further Faster

Tom Rowley

PechaKucha

What Is the Value of a Perspective

Taylor Ferrari

Tutorials

Tutorial

Tutorial: Agile for Researchers

Carrie Yury & Chris Young

Tutorial

Analysis in Human-Centered Design

Carey Palmer & Joellen Kames

Tutorial

Ethnographic Research Design

Sam Ladner

Tutorial

Fundamentals of Observational Research

Mike Youngblood

Tutorial

Getting Started with Sensor Data

Dawn Nafus

Tutorial

Human Sciences and Value Creation: Building Transformative Value Propositions

Johannes Suikkanen

Tutorial

Visualization Principles for Talking Less and Communicating More

Robert Zolna

Panels

Panel

Doing Design Research in a Cognitive World

Chris Hammond et al.

Panel

Ethnography in Agile Contexts: Offering Speed or Spark?

Martha Cotton et al.

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