Abstract
One key component in the accomplishment of intersubjectivity and intercorporeality (Meyer, Streeck, & Jordan, 2017) is participants use of embodied work in order to establish head and facial orientation towards each other (Goodwin, 1980; Mondada, 2009). But what happens when people are using technology and it somehow complicates the possibility of face-to-face interaction? In this presentation we show how participants use the affordances of the technology and the spatial layout to achieve joint attention, especially by manipulating the technology and being mobile (cf. Arminen, Licoppe, & Spagnolli, 2016). The presentation builds on data from video-mediated interactions where participants moves the camera and turns the screen; interactions with a telepresence robot which a doctor can control and moves; and interactions with a robot (Pepper) where humans orient towards the robot’s “face”. We discuss the orderly functions of face-to-face orientation as a human fundamental (Levinas, 1979) that is accomplished by creatively reconfigurering aspects of the setting, the social organization and by using the affordances of the technology and other material structures. The presentation contributes to EMCA studies of technology-in-flux by highlightning mobility features, technology affordances and co-operative human creativity.
Arminen, I., Licoppe, C., & Spagnolli, A. (2016). Respecifying Mediated Interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(4), 290–309. https://doi.org/10.1080/08351813.2016.1234614
Goodwin, C. (1980). Restarts, Pauses, and the Achievement of a State of Mutual Gaze at Turn-Beginning. Sociological inquiry, vol:50 hft.:3-4, 272.
Levinas, E. (1979). Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority. Springer Science & Business Media.
Meyer, C., Streeck, J., & Jordan, J. S. (2017). Intercorporeality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Mondada, L. (2009). Emergent focused interactions in public places: A systematic analysis of the multimodal achievement of a common interactional space. Journal of Pragmatics, 41(10), 1977–1997.
Original language | English |
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Publication date | 2019 |
Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Event | COACT Conference 2019. : Interaction and discourse in flux: Changing landscapes of everyday life - Oulu University, Oulu, Finland Duration: 24 Apr 2019 → 26 Apr 2019 https://www.oulu.fi/coact/conference2019 |
Conference
Conference | COACT Conference 2019. |
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Location | Oulu University |
Country/Territory | Finland |
City | Oulu |
Period | 24/04/2019 → 26/04/2019 |
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