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An Update on the Solar Server

It has been quite some time since the last update on the Ethos Lab's experiments with a solar server! Since its presentation in NordiCHI, the server has been through many lives. First as a host for a very unreliable and quick to drain the battery small language model,...
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Doing AI Otherwise – A collaboration with INVI

What if we did AI differently? Join our new workshop series, co-hosted with INVI (Institute for Wicked Problems) and explore how to 'Do AI otherwise' The Institute for Wicked Problems (INVI) and ETHOS Lab are excited to announce a new workshop series that critically...
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Introducing Vasiliki Tsaknaki

ETHOS Lab is very excited to introduce you all to our lovely lab member Vasiliki Tsaknaki. Vasiliki's research is in the HCI domain and combines materials experiences, computational crafts and somatic design methods. Through practice-based studies, she investigates...
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Introducing Alena Thiel

ETHOS Lab happily welcomes lab member Alena Thiel - in fact, we did quite a while ago now. But we would like to introduce you all to her as well. Alena has recently received the Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral fellowship for her project,...
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Blog: Metadata

This blog is the outlet of Lab Life – our projects, memories, challenges, reflections, and arguments with traits of science and technology studies and feminist theory.

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Exploring Gendered Emotions in Friends Using Natural Language Processing

By Miranda Speyer-Larsen, Junior Researcher   I started this project wanting to combine two interests of mine: Natural Language Processing (NLP) and emotional stereotypes related to gender. The latter has long been a subject of both curiosity and frustration for...
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The vibe-ification of political campaigning

By Ida Marie Iversen & Jonas Lykou Lund, Junior Researchers   On the 22nd of July 2024, global pop icon Charli XCX tweeted “Kamala IS brat”, a seemingly simple statement that quickly became a momentary defining moment in the 2024 presidential election. At...
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A Pointing out practice: A post qualitative exploration

By Sara Mezei, Junior Researcher When starting the JR program, my goal was to carry out a project led by my design education toolkit. With my research topic, I aimed to explore how the current right-wing government of Hungary (my birth country) fragments civil...
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Netstalgia

By Hanna Stokes, Junior Researcher   In my last blog post, I wrote about finding, contributing, and being on the Web Revival, a network of personal websites. I also wrote about how the designs of online experiences of Web Revival websites remind me of the...
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Digitally Mediating the Carnal: The Case of FemTech

Still from the Oura Ring ad posted on YouTube  By Renia Morfakidou, Junior Researcher   I got my first period when I was ten years old, and I didn’t know what a period meant. Now, I am twenty-five. I’ve had approximately 150 periods, all of them, without...
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