Documenting a city or country from a car is a bit like doing human behavioural research without ever leaving a laboratory – there is worthy …
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After a week of shuttling to meetings in and around Seattle not one taxi receipt signed by a driver. It is in part, an implicit …
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Espoo Taxi driver adds rear door handle to make it easier to pull the door to. The Japanese have solved this issue through the use …
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Processing Field Study Experiences
31 Aug 2009
They’ll be tears before bedtime.
After six weeks on the road, clocking up over 5,000 land-miles in China alone, it’s time to head home. Flight UA …
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Touch points from a long, long day: the 5am cashier in Chicago O’Hare with a world weary ‘how are you today?’; cruising across a rush …
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Weaving For Profit and Pleasure
11 Nov 2008
There’s no choice but to sit back and relax when your driver weaves in and out of airport to city traffic with skills obviously learned …
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This corner of Mishuku, fairly close to my home where the taxi driver’s pull up their rigs, take a pee in the nearby pubic lavatory, …
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Take Breakfast, Not Lunch
31 May 2008
It’s quite some feat to be first off the plane and through immigration and the very last passenger to clear customs. The silver lining to …
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Imagine a world without access to banks and the services they provide – baseline services such as credit, money transfers, savings. For many of the …
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