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Hippolyta stands bloody after a battle, with many more foes coming behind her. (Image from HBO's Lovecraft Country, S1 E7)

Not So Mad Science: Leading a Research Team in the Real World

The first time I was asked to “own” product research at work, I thought I would build a Mad Social Science Lab… in about 3 months-time. That was wrong. The building never ends and “I” wasn’t the one building anything. Honestly, I was an admirer of the Mad Scientist trope in fiction. Not the world […]

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Image from Season 1, Episode 1 of YouTube's Origin series

A rising tide lifts all spaceships.

Over the last decade or so, my husband and I have adopted the saying “we’ll never get to Alpha Centauri that way.” We pull it out in situations where we observe people being petty, distracted, mean, or otherwise acting against their own collective potential. It wasn’t until recently, however, that I noticed that the idea

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Hunger Games scene showing control room

Rethinking CSCW

Forgive me for not staying up on the (social) science behind Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), but I remember it being very interesting in 2000. It was hot! Everywhere you turned in my beloved field of Human Factors (or in this case, my much loved cousin Human-Computer Interaction) researchers were examining how to augment human

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