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By Chris Aftzidis & Paula Victoria Menshikoff, Junior Researchers Are you ever out by yourself in public and you start imagining what lives the people around you are living? What their hobbies and interests are, whether they have a partner or kids, or what...
Image from Dall-E 2 By Tristan Massimo Carl Vonet, Junior Researcher Music has been an integral part of human life since, well, as long as we can remember as a species. It brings forth emotions in us in a way that we can’t quite understand. How we came...
Illustration: Lehel Kovacs By Johanne Engel Aaen, Junior Researcher On a Saturday in October I am sitting at home, in my bed, getting ready to watch a YouTube video. Nothing out of the ordinary in that scenario. Still, I am having this particular...
By Louie Meyer, Junior Researcher Take a moment to envision your expectations and let the impressions settle. Were your visions based on circumstances in your own field of work? On previous experience or future aspirations? On the latest science fiction movie...
By Ahmet Akkoc, Junior Researcher Did you know that 1 in 3 people use a VPN? People these days care a lot about their privacy, and they are willing to pay a lot for it. So much so, in fact, that market researcher Cloudworks estimated that that the market for...
By Emilie Mørch Groth, Junior Researcher In marketing there is a saying along the lines; “if you can find the brand in Netto, then you know it has left the trendsetting sphere and entered the realm of mainstream” – for better or worse. I will concoct a similar...
By Luis Landa I had to recently do a lecture for the class Navigating Complexity and the topic was visualisations. Since I was going to use a lot of examples that showcase the diverse uses, messages, and possibilities of visualisations, I tried to google...
alt: [A group of women are sitting around a table bending over colorful printouts of objects and people. In pairs of two they engaged with one image. Some analyze the printout in silence while others discuss. On the table, some room has been made for two cakes. One...
Back in mid-June we had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Dr Kat Jungnickel and Ellen Fowles from the POP Lab at Goldsmiths University to ETHOS Lab. Dr Kat Jungnickel is the PI and Ellen Fowles is the Research Assistant and Project Manager on the ERC funded...
On the last day of summer, August 31st, we had the great pleasure of welcoming four researchers from Aalto University. Professor of Practice Nitin Sawhney, Dr. Minttu Tikka and PhD fellows Kaisla Kajava and Karolina Drobotowicz are all part of the CRAI-CIS (CRitical...