Trampoline’s CEO, Charles Armstrong, and User Experience Manager, Mike Stenhouse, are presenting at ETech 2007, San Diego, next week. Entitled Collective Intelligence, Indeterminacy and the Illusion of Control, their session will offer an ethnographer’s perspective on how humans interact with complex systems and what this means for a new generation of social or “sociomimetic” technologies.
If you’re at the conference you can find them in Douglas B at 3:05pm on Tuesday 27th March, please pop in and say ‘Hi’!
March 27th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I’m currently listening to Charles’ talk here at eTech — fascinating stuff.
Glad to hear about Trampoline; I’ve got an anthro degree myself (from Cambridge no less) and work in tech on the business side, so I’m always delighted to discover someone who’s bringing ethnographic insights to tech.
Would love to have Charles, or someone else from Trampoline, speak at the Bay Area meetings of the Anthrodesign community (global email list, but locals in various areas get together on occasion).
The local Anthrodesigners would enjoy discussing this stuff: and, they’re a good group to know, from the professional / networking perspective (many of them are career UI and ethnographers employed by the local tech companies small and large: SAP, HP, Microsoft, Intuit, etc.).
If any interest in this as a speaking opportunity, email me and I’d be happy to get you in the loop with the local host for the AD get-togethers (Natalie over at SAP). Otherwise you can contact Natalie directly via the Anthrodesign Yahoo group.
March 30th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Charles — will you make your talk available? I’d be most interested to read it (and view any slides…).