Research
Five questions I keep returning to.
This work is organised around questions rather than disciplines. Anthropology, digital and economic anthropology, behavioural research and policy analysis are methods in service of the questions below — never the other way round.
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Theme 01
Human Behaviour & Decision-Making
How ordinary decisions are made under uncertainty, obligation and time pressure — and what changes when a recommendation arrives from a system rather than a person.
Current questions
- What do people treat as evidence when a machine and a person disagree?
- How is a decision distributed across family, colleagues and institutions before it is 'made'?
- When does automation reduce deliberation rather than support it?
Future directions
Comparative work on decision environments in banking, university and public-service settings.
Reading
- Mary Douglas — Risk and BlameRoutledge, 1992
- Lucy Suchman — Human–Machine ReconfigurationsCambridge University Press, 2006
- Annemarie Mol — The Logic of CareRoutledge, 2008