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 04
Digital Anthropology & Human-Centred AI
Everyday digital life is where AI is actually encountered: in feeds, forms, chat interfaces and the small negotiations people make to get through a system.
Current questions
- How do people domesticate AI tools into existing routines?
- What workarounds reveal about the gap between designed and lived use?
- What would it mean for a system to adapt to people rather than the reverse?
Projects
Future directions
Design-facing translations of ethnographic findings for product and service teams.
Reading
- Daniel Miller — The Comfort of ThingsPolity, 2008
- Genevieve Bell & Paul Dourish — Divining a Digital FutureMIT Press, 2011
- Ruha Benjamin — Race After TechnologyPolity, 2019