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Innovation Teams, Mundane Innovation, and the Public Good

Innovation Teams, Mundane Innovation, and the Public Good

Article 2 in the series Data, Design and Civics: Ethnographic Perspectives The windows were dirty when I arrived on the fifteenth floor of City Hall. I had been hired as the Los Angeles’ Innovation Team’s in-house social communication researcher. My official title was “Design and Data Research...

What Anthropology Brings to Innovation: John Sherry / A Profile

What Anthropology Brings to Innovation: John Sherry / A Profile

John W. Sherry, Director the Experience Innovation Lab at Intel Corporation, is a Keynote Speaker at EPIC2016—join us! “Anthropology is really undersold.” Dr. John Sherry’s words carry weight—he is Director of the Experience Innovation Lab at Intel Corporation. In addition to discovering ways to...

Walking the Interface: Uncovering Practices through ‘Proxy Technology Assessment’

Walking the Interface: Uncovering Practices through ‘Proxy Technology Assessment’

  This paper describes the method of “proxy technology assessment”, which implies the formalisation of using current technological objects available on the market to generate a richer understanding of future everyday life practices with new media technologies. First, the theoretical framework...