AO: The author notes a “research partner”; this person is quoted directly but not listed as co-author.
AO: Coban notes that she conducted participant observation to focus on bodily experiences of developing hardware. She also conducted qualitative interviews. Interestingly she notes that an important part of her participatory research and an aim to approach some principles of “the Charter of Decolonial Research ethics” was to organize roundtable discussions to discuss preliminary research results with the people she worked with. She noted that she decided to anonymize all research participants even if some did not mind being named in publication because of the sensitivity of some of the insights and topics.
AO: Coban includes several direct quotes throughout the piece.