Research Methods

Chinese Bandit Translation Teams

Presentation: Bandit Translation Team
Popular content is available in China, with Chinese subtitles within 8 hours of being broadcast almost anywhere in the world – a short presentation, co-authored …



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25 Sep 2011

UBICOMP Links

19 Sep 2011



The title uberrima fides refers to the legal doctrine covering insurance contracts – where all parties must enter into the contract making a full declaration …
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Welcome to the Ghetto

11 Sep 2011

In: Ibadan
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“Welcome to the ghetto.” A half-day spent in one of Ibadan’s tight shanty town communities, sniffing out sufficiently conducive contexts and people to conduct interviews. The …
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The Meanest Mofo

07 Sep 2011

In: Ibadan
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A guest post, and a method here.
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Lessons from Faux Pas

03 Aug 2011



We’re professional, we travel for a living, decoding culture for paying clients. But the very nature of our outsider status, our constant travel means that …
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The Road Ahead

28 Jul 2011

In: Gulu
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Heading off to South African and Nigeria shortly for a field study looking into . Ping if you’re in the neighbourhood – putting together a …
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Field Research in the Age of Data Servitude

28 Jun 2011



A simple and very effective technique for simultaneously putting the participant at ease and putting moral boundaries around the data that the team captures is …
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Underlines

01 Nov 2010

In: Shanghai
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Friends visiting Shanghai, looking at the city through similar lenses. The act of recording as a signifier of ‘interesting’. The act of recording the recording as …
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The 3 Audiences

26 Oct 2010

There are 3 audiences to every presentation: the people in the room; the people tuning in online in real or close to real time; and …
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Impartial Encounters

08 Oct 2010

In: Kyoto
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Or not. Short radio interview here with the Economist. Summary: the tools to help us negotiate today’s (heavily loaded notion of) impartiality is going to be …
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