Embodiment as Professional Knowledge

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Embodiment as Professional Knowledge
Interacting Bodies-Corps en interaction Lyon-Franc
e, June 15-18 , 2005

• Francesca Alby
• francesca.alby_at_uniroma1.it

Department of Social and Developmental
Psychology University of Rome La Sapienza

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The research setting

• an Internet company which manages a portal that
  provides services to a mass audience
  (personalized homepage news, e-mail, sms,
  thematic channels, e-commerce...)
• 40 people
• 2 main work groups producers engineers

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Data

• Ethnographic method
• Data
• Video and transcriptions (conversational
  analysis) 10 hrs
• Log Instant Messanger 3hrs
• Email (related to the interactions ) 23
• Papers (related to the interactions ) 10
  items
• Photos 20
• Print screen of the website and various
  applications 10 items
• Interviews
• Notes

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• In this presentation I will analyze how the
  design process is socially organized.
• I will explore in particular relevant design
  activities such as
• Participating in teamwork
• Interacting
• Imagining absent objects
• Designing actions
• Embodying future interactions in technological
  products

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• 1.Participating in teamwork
• Seeing a work group

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• 1.Participating in teamwork
• Leaving a group

or maybe it is faster to see it now
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• 2. Interacting
• Trialoging (Suchman, 2002)
• (configuration bodyinterface)

20 sec.
changing the template