In China, shanzhai (which is related to the English word ‘counterfeit’) products that are widely used by a large amount of Chinese users have been fully integrated into the society. This...
Student Papers
The EPIC Graduate Student Research Symposium seeks to support the next generation of EPIC leaders by helping them to shape their contributions to both the scholarship and practice of ethnographic praxis in industry. We ask that you continue to nurture the future of EPIC, by continuing to provide feedback to students in the "Comments" section following their paper. Please focus your comments on helping the students refine their research questions, assumptions, methods, and/or the quality of their evidence. We also seek feedback on how their relevancy of their work to Industry and how to improve it. Thank you.
Theme 01: Everyday Ethnographic Situations and Identity
We piloted a new mechanism to measure physiological arousal (frustration, anxiety, excitement, etc.) in an observational setting. As a proof of concept, mothers’ arousal was measured while...
Theme 02: Mediating Technologies and the Social Context
Technology, knowledge and practice
A sales representative calls Marie to order twenty-two meters of the white curtain fabric Zulu 134 for a German customer. With her headset on and hands...
The Danish welfare model is being challenged by a number of factors such as the double demographic challenge: an ageing population of baby boomers combined with a decreasing birth rate. Add to...
Theme 03: Designerly Methods of Ethnographic Representation
Demonstrating a technology to an audience, “demoing,” has emerged as a common practice in research and development. In this paper I suggest that demoing plays an important part in the...
It is not news that design has been considered central to fast growing organizations [Thackara 2005]. In this scenario, design could be well considered a platform for multidiscipline. Why? One of...
Theme 04: Ethnographic Engagements with Government
Like ethnography, prototyping is an iterative process. While designers may be limited in the time and resources they can devote towards participant observation and semi-structured interviews, the...
The complexity of a military operational environment is well documented; however, traditional evaluations and metrics utilized to assess the successful execution of medical stability operations (...