Schedule • EPIC2019

Saturday,

November 9

Venue: Rhode Island School of Design—MAP

8:30-5:00 pm

Check-in

RISD Auditorium Lobby info

Online pre-registration is required for tutorials—there is no on-site registration.

Drop by at any time to get your badge and conference agenda; you don’t need a confirmation code or receipt. If you need info or assistance at any time, this is the place.

9:00-4:00 pm

Graduate Colloquium

Washington Building Room 302

9:00-4:00 pm

Tutorials

Sessions

*Tutorials registration is closed. No on-site registration for tutorials.
*Please arrive early to check in at the RISD Auditorium Lobby before going to your tutorial classroom.

9:00 am–12:00 pm
• Ethics in Data-Driven Industries College Building 412
• Information Design for Ethnographic Analysis College Building 442
• Managing Resistance to Change in Your Organization College Building 346
• Advancing Your Agile Research Program Washington Building 310
• Participatory Visual Research College Building 410

12:00–1:00 pm
Lunch for all tutorial attendees & instructors—Market Square Tent

1:00–4:00 pm
• Cultivating Research Capacity as Organizational Strategy College Building 442
• Making Video Ethnography Work Washington Building 310
• Sketchnoting College Building 412
• Observational Research & Human Agency College Building 410
• Making Sense—Leading Teams Through Synthesis College Building 346

4:30-5:45 pm

Reconceptualizing Privacy

RISD Auditorium

Panel

Algorithmic systems are increasingly integrated into the physical and digital infrastructures of our lives. The borders of privacy are being pushed and redefined, provoking new debate about what privacy is. All corporations claim privacy is important, but what does that mean? Panelists will explore what privacy might look like or mean when individuals are tied into multiple networks, both human and AI.

Moderator:
ken anderson, Principal Researcher, Intel Corporation

Panelists:
Liz Keneski, Head of Privacy Research, Facebook Inc.
Peter Levin, Principal Researcher, Autodesk
Elena O’Curry, Senior User Researcher, Uber
Jeff Sokolov, Designer & Researcher, IBM Watson Health

More about panels & panelists

6:00-9:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Kick off EPIC by connecting with people and art at the RISD Museum. Collections explore diverse cultures, makers, and relationships across communities.

Sunday,

November 10

Venue: Rhode Island School of Design—MAP

8:00-5:30 pm

Check-in, Book Exhibit, Jobs Board

RISD Auditorium Lobby info

Check-in: Drop by to get your badge and conference agenda; you don’t need a confirmation code or receipt. If you need info or assistance at any time, this is the place.

Book Exhibit: EPIC Members have written some of the most important books in our field (and others!), and you can browse them at leisure. If you have a book that should be on display, please tell us.

Jobs Board: Nothing like paper & a board to recruit at a gathering like EPIC (and post to the digital version here)

8:00-9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

Market Square Tent

9:00-9:30 am

Welcome

RISD Auditorium

9:30-10:30 am

Keynote Address

RISD Auditorium Sareeta Amrute

Sareeta is Director of Research at Data & Society and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research is focused on the integration of humans and technologies, particularly how race and class are revisited and remade in sites of new economy work such as coding and software economies. More…

10:30-11:00 am

Coffee

Market Square Tent

10:30-6:00 pm

Gallery

Illustration Studies Building

Installations

Gallery installations evoke multimodal experiences of ethnographic practice—written, oral, visual, three-dimensional, interactive, critical, reflective. Read descriptions of each installation.

The Ethno-graphic Sensibility
Jamie McPike (Instagram) & Diana Graizbord (University of Georgia)

Socially Informed Policy and Planning for AV Mobility in Rhode Island
Kate Fisher (3×3)

Agency via Avatar Emotions in Virtual Reality
Ayfer Gokalp (Facebook) & Jacqueline Pospisil (Oculus)

Office Humour
James O’Neill, Francesco Pini & Frauke Hein (Fjord)

What Are Memories Made of?
Hema Malini Waghray (marginaliaa.com)

Debris
Daria Loi (Mozilla) & Heather McGeachy (DreamOften)

Interactive Storytelling: Bringing Personas to Life through an AR/VR Experience
Idil Berkan, Amy Lasater-Wille & Alan Finch (Oliver Wyman Studio)

Density Done Right: Co-designing Walkable, Sustainable, and Equitable Communities through Digital and Analog Mediums of Public Engagement
Brian Strawn (University of Hawaii), Karla Sierralta (University of Hawaii), Alisa Weinstein (Google) & Rebecca Buck (Forge Studio)

Vær: On Place, Weather, Being, and Agency
Erica Kowsz (University of Massachusetts) & Hunter Styles

hi how r u: A Toolkit for Digital Expression
Erin Ryan (Carnegie Mellon University)

Where Does Cancer Live Now?
Jacob McAuliffe & Rebekah Park (ReD Associates)

11:00-12:30 pm

Everyday Automation

RISD Auditorium PechaKucha & Papers

PechaKucha curated by Elizabeth Anderson-Kempe
Papers curated by Ellie Rennie

Living amongst AI: Agency of the Household Ethnography’s Role in Seeing the AI’s Blind Spots (PechaKucha), LaiYee Ho (Delve)

AI Among Us: Agency in a World of Cameras and Recognition Systems (Paper), ken anderson (Intel); Carl DiSalvo (Georgia Institute of Technology); Maria Bezaitis (Intel); Sue Faulkner (Intel)

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

Calibrating Agency: Human-Autonomy Teaming and The Future of Work Amid Highly-Automated Systems (Paper), Laura Cesafsky (Alliance Innovation Lab – Silicon Valley); Erik Stayton (MIT); Melissa Cefkin (Alliance Innovation Lab – Silicon Valley)

Robots and the Fallacy of Agency (PechaKucha), Stewart Allen (Fuse Foresight)

12:30-2:00 pm

Lunch

Market Square Tent

12:45-1:45 pm

Salons—Sponsored by Steelcase

Sessions

*Salon registration is closed. No on-site registration.

• When Not to Design AI (Washington Rm 128A)
• Honoring the Unforeseen (Washington Rm 128B)
• Speaking Truths to Power (Washington Rm 302)
• Supporting Advanced Practitioners (Washington Rm 310)
• Agency through Appropriation (College Building Rm 346)
• Failing Fast—Adapting to Agile (College Building Rm 410)
• Design, Ethnography & Foresight (College Building Rm 412)
• Intersectional Design Research (College Building Rm 424)
• Getting “Unstuck in the Middle” with Ethics (College Building Rm 442)

2:00-3:30 pm

Film

RISD Auditorium Screenings

Food for Thought: The Path to Food Security in Newark, NJ
Ruchika Muchhala (Third Kulture Media)

The Learning Library: Using Ethnographic Film as an Organizational Change Tool by Scaling Human Insights Across a National Preschool System
Hal Phillips & Meg Kinney (Bad Babysitter)

Agency in a Future Smart Home
Nick Agafonoff (Real Ethnography)

Clyde in Mulberry
Allegra Oxborough (Aero Creative LLC)

3:30-4:00 pm

Coffee

Market Square Tent

4:00-5:30 pm

Agency & Innovation

RISD Auditorium Panel

Robotics, machine learning, and other technologies are provoking new hopes and fears about human agency. Tropes of the charismatic lone innovator, whether hero or villain, are also starting to lose popular currency. When we acknowledge that the agents of the built world are not just people who call themselves “innovators” but are made up of many kinds of people, and physical materials, new questions arise. How do issues of responsibility, accountability, attribution, and even regulation get solved in situations of distributed agency? What new stories about agency need to be told?

Moderator:
Dawn Nafus, Senior Researcher, Intel Labs

Panelists:
Melissa Cefkin, Principal Researcher, Alliance Innovation Lab Silicon Valley
Michael Littman, Professor of Computer Science & Co-Director of the Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative, Brown University
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
Heli Rantavuo, Senior Insights Manager, Growth Opportunities Mission, Markets Business Unit, Spotify

More about panels & panelists

Monday,

November 11

Venue: Rhode Island School of Design—MAP

8:00-5:00 pm

Info Desk, Book Exhibit, Jobs Board

RISD Auditorium Lobbyinfo

Info Desk: If you need info or assistance at any time, this is the place.

Book Exhibit: EPIC Members have written some of the most important books in our field (and others!), and you can browse them at leisure. If you have a book that should be on display, please tell us.

Jobs Board: Nothing like paper & a board to recruit at a gathering like EPIC (and post to the digital version here)

8:00-9:00 am

Continental Breakfast

Market Square TentPortfolio Review Group

Whether we’re on the job market, advancing internally in our organizations, or pitching to clients, we all need to be able to present our skills and accomplishments effectively. This breakfast session is opportunity to get thoughtful, candid feedback on your portfolio, resume, or case study in a facilitated group. Not a recruiting event. More info here.