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Customer interviews and other more in depth ethnographic techniques are going to deliver what you're looking for.

Read any early ethnographic account from Champlain on and you will find detailed reports of this.

The ultimate form of ethnographic immersion - rather than just watching someone do their job, or ask them probing questions...

All three Late Pleistocene samples have a dearth of older individuals compared with Holocene ethnographic/historical samples.

Many if not most large corporations employ anthropologists who conduct ethnographic studies of how people all over the world use technology.

Both look fantastic though, and I love the effort that’s gone into the ethnographic side of the art.

If you follow HCI research, you may notice a trend: lots of publications based on ethnographic methods, qualitative approaches and the like.

I also believe ethnographic methods are the best weapon in a UX expert arsenal.

From ethnographic research, this is a good move by Google.

I've also read some very interesting ethnographic studies about the effects of poverty, including ones about the parenting styles of different class levels.

This is an ethnographic study, not a random survey.

Huge amounts of ethnographic records, lots of European good electronic music (Mille plateaux etc), thousands of vintage country artists and somehow even merzbow and his massive box set.

Now, you might criticize my list as being arbitrary, and that some people would find "colonizing mars" about as yawn worthy as doing an ethnographic study on sociologists in the field.

"Their primary source of information was a detailed ethnographic description of over 1,200 language groups across the world." This method could be extremely error-prone, due to borrowings, etc.