EPIC2017 Video

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Keynotes

Culinary Habits and Feral Cakes
Dana Sherwood

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

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

Pedestrian Perspectives
Melissa Cefkin

Tutorials

Agile for Researchers
Instructors: Carrie Yury & Chris Young

Fundamentals of Observational Research
Instructor: Mike Youngblood

Getting Started with Sensor Data
Instructor: Dawn Nafus

Virtual Reality and Ethnographic Research
Instructors: Karl Mendonca & Adele Ray

Ethnographic Research Design
Instructor: Sam Ladner

Human Sciences and Value Creation: Building Transformative Value Propositions
Instructor: Johannes Suikkanen

Visualization Principles for Talking Less and Communicating More
Instructor: Robert Zolna

Analysis in Human-Centered Design
Instructors: Carey Palmer & JoEllen Kames

Panels

Doing Design Research in a Cognitive World
Moderator: Chris Hammond

Ethnography in Agile Contexts
Moderator: Martha Cotton

Papers

Making Culture Visible

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

Surveillance, Technology, and American Conceptions of Freedom
Mike Griffin

The Mixed-Up-Files of A 21st-Century Librarian: Demographics, Democracy, and the Public Library
Alannah Berson

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

Autonomous Individuals in Autonomous Vehicles
Erik Stayton, Melissa Cefkin & Jingyi Zhang

Shifting the Discipline

“cuciurean-zapan”

Situated: Reconsidering Context in the Creation and Interpretation of Design Fictions
Marta Cuciurean-Zapan

Towards Multi-Dimensional Ethnography
Julia Haines

Five Steps Behind: How Ethnography Can Fuel Innovation Early in the Value Chain
Martin Millard & Yosha Gargeya

Ethnographic Tools: From Insight to Intervention
Wafa Said Mosleh

A Mixed Method Approach for Identifying Emerging Fields and Building Collaborative Teams
Therese Kennelly Okraku, et al

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

Vantage Points

When ‘The Emperor Has No Clothes’: Performance, Complicity, and Legitimacy in Corporate Attempts at Innovation
Josh Kaplan

The View from the Studio: Design Ethnography and Organizational Cultures
AnneMarie Dorland

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

The Object of Research: Considering Material Engagement Theory and Ethnographic Method
Jonathan Bean, Bernardo Figueiredo, & Hanne P. Larsen

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

Case Studies

Perspectives on Organizational Culture

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

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

Bringing Attention to Problem Solving and Meaningfulness at Work
Carole Charland & Karen Hofman

Narrative & Perspective Shifts

It’s not Just Childs’ Play: Changing Corporate Narratives through Ethnography
Anne McClard & Therese Dugan

Chaging the Perspective of Government
Emma Saunders et al

The Inhuman Condition: How Research Unlocked New Perspectives on Psoriasis
Sarah Kelleher

New Ventures & New Markets

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

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

Creating a Creators’ Market: How Ethnography Gave Intel a New Lens on Digital Content Creators
ken anderson et al

Digital Perspectives

“Thinking Outside the Camp”: Education Solutions for Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer

The Lifecycle of a Washing Machine: Transforming Customer Experience
Beth Kelley & Jennifer Buchanan

PechaKucha

Igniting Action

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

The Big “I Don’t Wanna”
Enrico Cullen

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

The Challenged Role of Ethnography in Startup Centric Innovation
Heinrich Schwarz

Through the Looking Glass

Place Label Here: Our Use of Labels at Work
Daniela Cuaron & Nik Jarvie-Waldron

What Is the Value of a Perspective
Taylor Ferrari

Shopping as Modern Quest
Alexandra Mack

Instax as Objects of Record
David Peter Simon

Ways of Seeing

Ghostly Spectres: On Ethnography and Identity
Es Braziel

Emotional Landscapes: Observing and Capturing the Emotionality of Experience
Bridget Monahan

Indian Classical Dance: The Foundational Element in my Practice of Ethnography
Vyjayanthi Vadrevu

Transgressions & Truth

A Dirty Perspective on a too-Clean World
Line Groes & Emilie Stuhr Andersen

Can Cheaters Prosper in Cambodia?
Lauren Markofsky

Should User Research Be Funny?
Meghan McGrath