Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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Harmonizing Human Eyes with Digital Sensors

Harmonizing Human Eyes with Digital Sensors

In this article we report on our research that focused on enhancing shopping experiences by introducing new media services in the physical environment of grocery shopping. Since we were interested in situated shopper’s experiences we conducted fieldwork. In particular, we paid attention to the...

Participatory Design: Re-evaluation as a Socio-material Assembly

Participatory Design: Re-evaluation as a Socio-material Assembly

This paper aims towards a critical re-evaluation of Participatory Design processes based on a completed collaborative research (2015) in rural China. The study involved two complementary disciplines; the Applied Social Sciences and Design and their corresponding research methodologies; Action...

The Luminosity of the Local

The Luminosity of the Local

This paper seeks to capture the local in Locavore—both its concrete and symbolic character. Locavore is a kind of nascent identity that emerges from constellations of social relationships, self-defining “food communities”, made up of consumers and farmers and chefs, and food writers and...