Co-Designing with Machines


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  • This month’s Ethnography Matters features writers from both the technical and humanities side who think about machines and humans in a symbiotic way. These are practitioners who haven’t fallen for the machines-vs-human binary. They have pushed the boundaries of their work to imagine what a world where computers act more like humans would look like. Above all, these are people who have embraced the complexity of where we’re going, and are encouraging us to adopt a new lens to interact with that complexity.

The future of designing autonomous systems will involve ethnographers

The future of designing autonomous systems will involve ethnographers

An Engineering Anthropologist: Why tech companies need to hire software developers with ethnographic skills

An Engineering Anthropologist: Why tech companies need to hire software developers with ethnographic skills

The human-side of artificial intelligence and machine learning

The human-side of artificial intelligence and machine learning

The hidden story of how metrics are being used in courtrooms and newsrooms to make more decisions

The hidden story of how metrics are being used in courtrooms and newsrooms to make more decisions

Why do brands lose their chill? How bots, algorithms, and humans can work together on social media

Why do brands lose their chill? How bots, algorithms, and humans can work together on social media

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Mindful Algorithms: the new role of the designer in generative design

Lou and Cee Cee prepare for fieldwork in the future: a world where robots conduct ethnography

Lou and Cee Cee prepare for fieldwork in the future: a world where robots conduct ethnography

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