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Seeing the world through people’s eyes
Gabriel Biller & Kristy Scovel from IIT Institute of Design, Chicago have a neat video called Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography & Interviewing Primer. It’s long – about 30 minutes but...
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Mashup for Ethnography
Here’s a very neat mashup of GoogleEarth and Twitter for ethnography (it’s in French). @thiteu sent me the link on Twitter. This work is a simulation of a 3 dimensional Geography using GOOGLE EARTH and...
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Ethnographers or Bricoleurs?
Dr. Aviva Rosenstein – “Fake Ethnography vs Real Ethnography” at URF08 from bolt peters on Vimeo. In a review of the User Research Friday Talks, Celeste Roschuni provides a recap of Dr. Rosenstein‘s...
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links for 2009-02-12
Anthropology and Activism in Pakistan with lullabies – A great example of Anthropology being used in Activism:”A few days ago, Pakistani anthropologist Samar Minallah lauched a “video song”, a tribute...
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Mobile Innovations
For a few days over the next two weeks, I’m going to be a “scribe” where I will visit with people who’s lives are being transformed through mobile innovations. This will be in rural Maharashtra and...
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Reading Ahead … ethnography on evolution of books and reading
Is a good series from Portigal Consulting on an exploratory study using an ethnographic approach to explore the evolution of books and reading habits, and is intended to inspire conversations and...
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How twitter helps me dig into work
I was asked this question at the Anthrodesign group, in the context of a conversation around getting into the swing of a project and developing some working momentum . I shared there, how I often find...
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51 card deck to inspire design from Ideo
Discovered this eBook on Ideo’s Method Cards at the Healthcare Innovation by Design Blog. From the Ideo website: IDEO Method Cards is a collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design...
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Newly discovered – Cultural Bytes
Just discovered Tricia Wang’s really super blog, Cultural Bytes, thanks to Experientia‘s blogpost on Ethnography’s contribution to values in technology design and use. She’s blogging her way through...
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Convo goes live
And finally, after months of derailment, and a ton of good longitudinal projects, we’re live! A little history here
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Blographies and Convo
Crossposting from the Convo Blog Blographies add to the conversation! We’ve been using the term “Blography” to help explain how we capture information for clients on longer ethnographic research...
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Personas and how we use them at Convo
Crossposting from the Convo Blog For the right job, in the right situation there’s nothing more powerful than getting the client to come to grips with a persona they don’t know or understand well. We...
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Convo Kids 2012 – A Journey of Discovery
Am quite excited that we’ve finally launched this project! In short, it is a year long research and immersion program with 12-21 year olds in India. We’re really looking for 5-6 sponsors - to help...
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Hacking Life – the India Way
Hacking Life – the India Way is a presentation I made at Microsoft SCS 2012 in NYC in January. Here’s an introduction by Stuart: In this presentation Dina makes a nice case viewing “hacking” as a...
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