EPIC2018 Honolulu | Evidence

How is evidence created, used, and abused?

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Keynotes

Keynote

Automating Inequality

Virginia Eubanks

Keynote

Cooperation without Submission

Justin B. Richland

Keynote

The Future Is Yours

Donna K. Flynn

Case Studies

Case Study

ReHumanizing Hospital Satisfaction Data

Julia Wignall & Dwight Barry

Case Study

Below the Surface of the Data Lake

Jacob Wachmann et al.

Case Study

Designing for Interactions with Automated Vehicles: Ethnography at the Boundary of Quantitative-Data-Driven Disciplines

Markus Rothmüller et al.

Case Study

Gaming Evidence: Power, Storytelling and the “Colonial Moment” in a Chicago Systems Change Project

Nathan Heintz

Case Study

Getting from Vision to Reality: How Ethnography and Prototyping Can Solve Late-Stage Design Challenges

Brady Sih et al.

Case Study

Humanizing Quant and Scaling Qual to Drive Decision-Making

Lauren Morris & Rebecca Gati

Case Study

Humans Can Be Cranky and Data Is Naive: Using Subjective Evidence to Drive Automated Decisions at Airbnb

Stephanie Carter & Richard Dear

Case Study

Just Add Water: Lessons Learned from Mixing Data Science and Design Research Methods to Improve Customer Service

Ovetta Sampson

Case Study

Mattresses & Moneyboxes: Cultural Affordances for Microfinance in Jordan

Zach Hyman

Case Study

Operationalizing Ethnographic Research to Grow Trust in Digital Financial Services

Soren Heitmann et al.

Case Study

Revitalising Openness at Mozilla: A Mixed Method Research Approach

Rina Tambo Jensen

Case Study

Scale, Nuance, and New Expectations in Ethnographic Observation and Sensemaking

Alexandra Zafiroglu & Yen-Ning Chang

Case Study

The Root Cause is Capitalism… and Patriarchy

Lindsey Wallace & Jenna Melnyk

Case Study

The Transformative Power of Singular Stories

Juliana Cardona et al.

Case Study

When Customer Insights Meet Business Constraints

Elizabeth A. Kelley & Amanda E. Dwelley

Papers

Paper

Acting on Analytics: Accuracy, Precision, Interpretation, and Performativity

Jeanette Blomberg et al.

Paper

Can I Get a Witness? The Limits of Evidence in Healthcare Quality Evaluation Systems in American Hospitals

Lindsay Ferris & Nichole Carelock

Paper

Contextual Analytics: Towards a Practical Integration of Human and Data Science Approaches in the Development of Algorithms

Millie P. Arora et al.

Paper

Designed for Care: Systems of Care and Accountability in the Work of Mobility

Erik Stayton & Melissa Cefkin

Paper

Doing Ethnography in AirSpace: The Promise and Danger of ‘Frictionless’ Global Research

Tom Hoy

Paper

Empathy Is not Evidence: Four Traps of Commodified Empathy

Rachel Robertson & Penny Allen

Paper

Evidence Outside the Frame: Interpreting Participants’ “Framing” of Information when Using Participatory Photography

Tabitha Steager

Paper

Eye Tracking in Medical Ethnography: Evaluating Evidence for Perception, Action & Collaboration in Healthcare

Larry S. McGrath

Paper

How Modes of Myth-Making Affect the Particulars of DS/ML Adoption in Industry

Emanuel Moss & Friederike Schüür

Paper

Human Sensemaking in the Smart City: A Research Approach Merging Big and Thick Data

Annelien Smets & Bram Lievens

Paper

Human-Centered Data Science: A New Paradigm for Industrial IoT

Matthew Yapchaian

Paper

International Business Ethnography: Are We Looking for Cultural Differences?

Yuuki Hara & Lynn Shade

Paper

Map Making: Mobilizing Local Knowledge and Fostering Collaboration

Nora Morales & Salomon González

Paper

Physicalizations of Big Data in Ethnographic Context

Jacob Buur et al.

Paper

Reading the Tea Leaves: Ethnographic Prediction as Evidence

Claire Maiers

Paper

Regarding the Pain of Users: Towards a Genealogy of the Pain Point

David Platzer

Paper

Screenplay, Novel, Poem: The Value of Borrowing from Three Literary Genres to Frame Our Thinking

Maria Cury & Michele Chang-Mcgrath

Paper

The Perfect uberPOOL: A Case Study on Trade-Offs

Jenny Lo & Steve Morseman

Paper

The Stakes of Uncertainty: Developing and Integrating Machine Learning in Clinical Care

Madeleine Clare Elish

Paper

Towards an Archaeological-Ethnographic Approach to Big Data: Rethinking Data Veracity

Shaozeng Zhang et al.

Paper

Who and What Drives Algorithm Development: Ethnographic Study of AI Start-up Organizational Formation

Rodney Sappington & Laima Serksnyte

PechaKucha

PechaKucha

“Empathizing” with Machines

Chris Butler

PechaKucha

Confessions Across Digital Distances

Jess Shutt

PechaKucha

Contextual Breathing: The Importance of Being Open in an Increasingly Closed World

April Jeffries

PechaKucha

Diagnosing the World Pulse

Christopher A. Golias

PechaKucha

Invisible Evidence: Our Disconnection with Broadband Connectivity

Susan Faulkner

PechaKucha

Life and Death of Evidence: The role of digital interactions during Mexico’s earthquake

Francisco Javier Pulido Ramirez

PechaKucha

Midway Atoll

Sarah Brooks

PechaKucha

Play it Back: Research as Intervention

Natalie Napier

PechaKucha

Rejected! Design Research, Publics and the Purging of Technologies

Lee Cesafsky

PechaKucha

The Story As Evidence: It’s Yours, It’s Mine, It’s Theirs

Nik Jarvie-Waldrom

PechaKucha

Working with Intuition

Anish Nangia

Tutorials

Tutorial

Tutorial: Doing Ethnography of Data Science & Algorithmic Systems

Ian Lowrie

Panels

Panel

Design & Data

Jeanette Blomberg et al.

Panel

What’s Fair in a Data-Mediated World?

Elizabeth F. Churchill et al.

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