National Science Foundation
September 2019 - May 2020 | Indiana
Introduction
The Research
To date, I have been working in support of two National Science Foundation (NSF) grants focusing on innovation in agriculture. I am conducing this work with my advisors, Professors Shaowen Bardzell and Jeffrey Bardzell.
From the primary NSF grant description:
This research integrates two goals: to survey, document, and disseminate knowledge about innovation in alternative agriculture to the human-centered computing community, and to support alternative-agricultural innovation practices using system design approaches to develop novel technologies that build on and extend what is already happening on a diversity of experimental farms.
WHAT THIS MEANT FOR ME
Over the course of my time supporting this grant, I have traveled to a variety of farms and the 2020 Indiana Small Farms Conference to conduct various types of ethnographic fieldwork. Such fieldwork has entailed interviews, observation, contextual inquiries, photo elicitation, etc.
End of Year Report
“Throw seeds in the ground. Things grow, things don’t. You just have to try it and find out.”