EPIC2019 Video & Proceedings

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Keynotes
Panels
Papers & PechaKucha
Case Studies
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Tutorials
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Keynotes

Sareeta Amrute

Tech Colonialsim Today
Sareeta Amrute

Zach Lieberman

Keynote Address
Zach Lieberman

Simon Roberts

Distant Cousins? Minds, Bodies, Machines
Simon Roberts

Panels

Innovation Panel

Agency & Innovation

Representation Panel

Representation & Representative-ness

Privacy Panel

Reconceptualizing Privacy

Climate Panel

Agency & the Climate Emergency

Paper & PechaKucha Sessions

Everyday Automation

anderson

Paper / AI Among Us: Agency in a World of Cameras and Recognition Systems
ken Anderson et al

cesafsky

Paper / Callibrating Agency: Human-Autonomy Teaming and the Future of Work
Lee Cesafsky et al

torales

PechaKucha / Believe in A.I.: Will You Pray for a Chatbot?
Andre Torales

allen

PechaKucha / Robots and the Fallacy of Agency
Stewart Allen

PechaKucha / Ethnography’s Role in Seeing the AI’s Blind Spots: Living amongst AI: Agency of the Household
LaiYee Ho

Negotiating Agency

weinstein

Paper / Hearing through Their Ears: Inclusive Research Methods with Blind Participants
Gregory Weinstein

Moellenberg

Paper / The Adaptation of Everyday Work in an Age of Automation
Tamara Moellenberg et al

mauldin

PechaKucha / Change Agent: Lessons on Power and Failure from Eight Years of Systems Research & Policy Design
Chelsea Mauldin

steager

PechaKucha / Data Walks into a Bar: A Love Story
Tabitha Steager

huidobro

PechaKucha / Adapting to the Lack of Agency: Research in Prisons
Ruben Perez Huidobro

Designing for Agency

pulman-jones

Paper / From ‘Cool Science’ to Changing the World: The Opportunity to Support Pre-Startup Science Commercialization
Simon Pulman-Jones & Amy Weatherup

Lafuente

Paper / (Fr)agile Objects: Thinking Scrum through Post-It Notes
Isabel Lafuente & Wilson Prata

Cury

Paper / Hybrid Methodology: Combining Ethnography, Cognitive Science, and Machine Learning
Maria Cury et al

parker

PechaKucha / Center Frame: Agency in the Lives of Researchers
Brandy Parker

schwindt

PechaKucha / Self Ethnography: Or, How I Earned My Berkeley Citizenship
Beth Schwindt

phillips

PechaKucha / Remembering the Blister: How What Didn’t Kill Me Made Me Stronger
Marise Phillips

Locating Agency

das

Paper / Designing Queer Connection: An Ethnography of Dating App Production in Urban India
Vishnupriya Das

latham

Paper / Following the Invisible Road Rules in the Field: Using ANT for CTF
Amity Ballantyne Latham et al

galik

Paper / The Change before Behaviour: Closing the Value-Action Gap Using a Digital Social Companion
Gyorgyi Galik

hyman

PechaKucha / Out to Dry: Change and Agency across Urban China
Zach Hyman

scull

PechaKucha / Ethnographic ‘Weirdness’: Attending to Indicators of the Unfamiliar
Charley Scull

rallapalli

PechaKucha / Nangi Village: A Story of Collective Agency in the Mountains of Nepal
Emelia Rallapalli

Automating Ethnography

cuciurean-zapan

Paper / Designing Good Jobs: Participatory Ethnography and Prototyping in Service-Oriented Work Ecosystems
Marta Cuciurean-Zapan & Victoria Hammel

cemaloglu

Paper / Agency and AI in Consulting: Pathways to Prioritize Agency-Enhancing Automations
Cengiz Cemaloglu et al

gorkovenko

Paper / Supporting Real-Time Contextual Inquiry Through Sensor Data
Katerina Gorkovenko et al

Expanding Ethnographic Agencies

zavyalova

PechaKucha / Creating Agency: What Ethnography Can Learn from Storytelling
Anna Zavyalova

oliveira

PechaKucha / Creative Photography through Ethnographic Research
Gabriela Oliveira

LeBlanc

PechaKucha / “Resistance Is Possible”: The Ethnography of Roleplaying
Nathan LeBlanc

lara

PechaKucha / Borders and Walls: What Is the Agency of Architects in Geopolitical Conflicts?
Ane Gonzalez Lara

gocabag

PechaKucha / Digital Selves and Distributed Agency: Redefining the Subject of Ethnography
Gunes Gocabag

athalye

PechaKucha / Breaking the Language Barrier: India, the Digital Revolution, and Human Agency
Shubhangi Athalye & Stuart Henshall

Ethnographic Agency

levin

Paper / Ethnographic Agency in a Data-Driven World
Nadine Sarah Levin

goliass

Paper / Toward Donut-Centered Design: A Design Research Toolkit for the 21st Century
Christopher A. Golias

Case Study Sessions

User Agency in UX Research

sandberg

My AI versus The Company AI: How Knowledge Workers Conceptualize Forms of AI Assistance
Nanna Sandberg et al

mahar

Empowered, Confident, and Prepared: Driving Chatbot Product Vision Through User Research
Molly Mahar & Gregory A. Bennett

brown

The Human Agency Driverless Cars Must Preserve
Eliot Salandy Brown & Katy Osborn

watson

Using Ethnography and Narrative Analysis to Uncover Customer Agency: Intrepid Travel
Alice Watson

pritchard

More than a Robot: Designing for Human Exploration on Mars
Paige Pritchard et al

Agency of the Affected

brickert

Can Any Hairdresser Fix a Car? Mechanics Seeking Agency in Automated Car Diagnostic Contexts
Chloé Huie Brickert & Guillaume Montagu

karn

Getting Us There: Ride Hailing Systems from the Drivers’ Perspectives
Keith S. Karn & William E. Hutson

radywyl

Designing for Dynamics of Agency in NYC Homeless Shelters
Natalia Radywyl

rogers

Bringing the Security Analyst into the Loop: From Human-Computer Interaction to Human-Computer Collaboration
Liz Rogers

pietrykowski

Boundary Crossings: Collaborative Robots and Human Workers
Bruce Pietrykowski & Mike Folster

Agency in/through Partnership

silva

Increasing Perceived Agency in Human-AI Interactions: Learnings from Piloting a Voice User Interface
Jake Silva

kuester

Speculative Futures inside Corporate Realities
Ben Kuester & Megan Prescott

ventrella

Weighing Decisions in Monitoring and Evaluation of Clean Cookstoves
Jennifer Ventrella et al

mestad

Caregiver/Family Agency: Rebuilding Confidence, Play, Familiarity, and Passion in a Healthcare System
Adaheid L. Mestad & Amin Mojtahedi

kinney

Educating the Educators: An Entire Franchise Preschool System Embraces Ethnographic Insights to Improve Brand Experience and Drive Growth
Meg Kinney & Hal Phillips

Film Session

Food for Thought by Ruchika Muchhala
The Learning Library by Hal Phillips & Meg Kinney
Clyde in Mulberry, by Allegra Oxborough
Agency in the Smart Home of the Future, by Nick Agafonoff

Tutorials

video

Ethics in Data-Driven Industries
Emanuel Moss & Friederike Schüür

video

Participatory Visual Research
Krista Harper

video

Sketchnoting
Nora Morales

video

Making Sense: Leading Teams through Synthesis
Ksenia Pachikov & Marta Cuciurean-Zapan

video

Cultivating Research Capacity as Organizational Strategy
Meena Kothandaraman & Zarla Ludin

video

Information Design for Ethnographic Analysis
Sheila Pontis

Gallery