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(2017): Culture-generality and culture-specificity of face. In: Pragmatics and Society 8 (2). DOI: 10.1075/ps.8.2.03iza
Abstract: In theorizing face as relational and interactional, Arundale (2010) argues that face encompasses a dialectic of relational connection and separation, which is culture-general, but can be voiced differently in different cultures. This paper examines how Arundale’s Face Constituting Theory (FCT) relates to the culture-specific emic understanding of face in Persian culture in talk in dissertation defense sessions. The data are two argumentative excerpts of natural interaction from a corpus of 12 PhD defense sessions in Iran. It is first argued that relational connection and separation is voiced as bonding and differentiation. Second, it is shown how the Persian emic concept of aberu can be accommodated in FCT. The analyses, grounded in CA and FCT, show how the dialectic of bonding and differentiation is interactionally achieved in the practices of aberu.
2013
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(2013): Design and Technologies for Understanding Older Adults Social Interactions in Retirement Communities. In: International Journal of Social Robotics 5 (4), S. 575-591. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-013-0219-6
Abstract: Social interactions in retirement communities' shared spaces are a key component to preventing social isolation and loneliness among older people. Given the underutilization of these spaces, placing technologies to promote utilization of- and socialization in-shared spaces might improve independence and quality of life among older adults. The purpose of this paper is to describe the design, development, and technology studies conducted for understanding the social interactions of older adults in retirement communities. To understand current use of shared spaces, observational studies were conducted in a retirement community. Moreover, interventions were implemented to evaluate the impact of designed technologies in shared spaces. The results motivate the need for an automated behavioral mapping surveillance system to quantify social interactions among older adults and technology interventions in retirement communities' shared common areas. This paper describes the development of a video-based analysis system for understanding social interactions among older adults in retirement communities. Specific emphasis is given to describing the automated behavioral mapping surveillance system designed to monitor the number, length, and type of interactions of older adults in retirement communities. We hypothesize that social interactions amongst older adults can be detected using video cameras and microphones strategically placed in the environment, and discuss the development of a surveillance system specifically for quantifying social interaction. This study is relevant for the field of social robotics as an example of a realistic application domain.
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(2013): On the materials of mats. Thinking through design in a Melanesian society. In: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19 (3), S. 581-599. DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12051
Abstract: This article examines the selective use of plant materials in design in Melanesia. It explores - through an analysis of pandanus leaf mats in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea - how makers select fibres on the basis of their capacity to express social relations to varying temporalities before their natural decay. J.J. Gibson's theory of affordance and Donald Norman's concept of mapping are critically applied for this purpose. This approach emphasizes how social and temporal relations are condensed into objects, and refocuses anthropological attention towards materials and their affordances in the production of material culture.
Keywords: Auswahl der Herstellungsmaterialien, Design, Donald Norman's concept of mapping, Entsprechung von Objekt-Lebensdauer und Dauer sozialer Beziehungen, J. J. Gibson's theory of affordance, Lebensdauer von Materialien, Lebensdauer von Objekten in Entsprechung zur Dauer von Beziehungen, Materielle Kultur, unterschiedlich langlebige Pflanzenfasern, Verbindung von social relations und Objekten, Zeit, Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen / Social Interaction 2011
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(2011): Assessment of awareness of connectedness as a culturally-based protective factor for Alaska native youth. In: Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology 17 (4), S. 444-455. DOI: 10.1037/a0025456
DOI: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21988583 Abstract: Research with Native Americans has identified connectedness as a culturally based protective factor against substance abuse and suicide. Connectedness refers to the interrelated welfare of the individual, one's family, one's community, and the natural environment. We developed an 18-item quantitative assessment of awareness of connectedness and tested it with 284 Alaska Native youth. Evaluation with confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory identified a 12-item subset that functions satisfactorily in a second-order four-factor model. The proposed Awareness of Connectedness Scale (ACS) displays good convergent and discriminant validity, and correlates positively with hypothesized protective factors such as reasons for living and communal mastery. The measure has utility in the study of culture-specific protective factors and as an outcomes measure for behavioral health programs with Native American youth.
Keywords: Adolescent, Alaska, Awareness, Child, "Connectedness", Culture, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Indians, North American/psychology, Male, Reproducibility of Results, Rural Population, social connectedness, Social Environment, Social Identification, Substance-Related Disorders/ethnology/prevention & control, Suicide/ethnology/prevention & control, Surveys and Questionnaires, Voraussetzungen für sozial angemessenes Verhalten, Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen / Social Interaction -
(2011): Designing to Support Social Connectedness. The Case of SnowGlobe 5, S. 129-142
Abstract: Social awareness systems aim at supporting social connectedness by providing users with subtle cues about what is happening in their social network. In developing such systems, designers are faced with many design choices that influence the way social connectedness is affected. Typically, the designs and evaluations of social awareness systems lack foundations in formal models of social connectedness. This paper first describes a conceptual model of social connectedness, which provides a guideline for the design and evaluation of a social awareness system called Snow Globe. Snow Globe is a lamp that creates interpersonal awareness of movement between people in two remote living rooms. It displays movement of a remote user by glowing brighter, and users can exchange nudges by users shaking their Snow Globes, making the remote Snow Globe blink. The user-system interactions and the effect of system use on social connectedness were evaluated in a field trial. Participants used a Snow Globe for several weeks and experienced Snow Globe as a complementary form of communication. Interviews and log-data show that participants enjoyed using Snow Globe, and that it contributed to relationship saliency and closeness as dimensions of social connectedness. Key design aspects for this effect were found to be the low-bandwidth level of communication, the ambiguity of the interaction, and the physicality of the interactions.
1996
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(1996): The media equation. How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places. s.l.: CSLI Publications
Abstract: According to popular wisdom, humans never relate to a computer or a television program in the same way they relate to another human being. Or do they? The psychological and sociological complexities of the relationship could be greater than you think. In an extraordinary revision of received wisdom, Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass demonstrate convincingly in The Media Equation that interactions with computers, television, and new communication technologies are identical to real social relationships and to the navigation of real physical spaces. Using everyday language, the authors explain their novel ideas in a way that will engage general readers with an interest in cutting-edge research at the intersection of psychology, communication and computer technology. The result is an accessible summary of exciting ideas for modern times. As Bill Gates says, '(they) … have shown us some amazing things'.
Keywords: Auch Neuropsychologie, Beeinflussung, Computerwissenschaft, Disziplin, Grundlegendes und umfassende Theorien, Informations- & Kommunikationstechnik, Interaktion, Klassiker, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Massenmedien, Medien, Mensch-Maschine-Releation, Mensch-Technik-Interaktion, Mensch-Technik-Relationen (MTR), Observablen/Kriterien für sozial angemessenes Verhalten und dessen Bewertung, Philosophie, Psychologie, Publikum, Raum/Ort, Realtechnik, Reflexionen über MTR, Sozialverhalten, Technik, Technikphilosophie, Zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen / Social Interaction
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