Reorganizing Mobile Formations

Stefani, Elwys De; Mondada, Lorenza

doi:10.1177/1206331213508504

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“…The bar is an obvious choice as a setting for exploring drink-ordering, but even if a researcher has no specific domain of inquiry yet, new research questions and ideas for a study may emerge from repeated viewing and 'unmotivated' analysis of any interactional data (Sacks, 1984a, p.27). For example, a corpus of video recordings of guided walking tours has provided a setting for discovering questions about how people organize themselves into mobile groups (De Stefani & Mondada, 2013), about the roles and procedures involved in getting the group to examine something (De Stefani, 2010), and to then coordinate the process of walking away together interactionally (Broth & Mondada, 2013).…”

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Improving human interaction research through ecological grounding (in press at Collabra)

Albert¹,

Ruiter²

2018

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In psychology, we tend to follow the general logic of falsificationism: we separate the ‘context of discovery’ (how we come up with theories) from the ‘context of justification’ (how we test them). However, when studying human interaction, separating these contexts can lead to theories with low ecological validity that do not generalize well to life outside the lab. We propose borrowing research procedures from well-established inductive methodologies in interaction research during the process of discovering new regularities and analyzing natural data without being led by theory. We introduce research procedures including the use of naturalistic study settings, analytic transcription, collections of cases, and data analysis sessions, and illustrate these with examples from a successful cross-disciplinary study. We argue that if these procedures are used systematically and transparently throughout a research cycle, they will lead to more robust and ecologically valid theories about interaction within psychology and, with some adaptation, can enhance the reproducibility of research across many other areas of psychological science.

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Section: Match Interactional Settings With Research Questionsmentioning

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Improving human interaction research through ecological grounding (in press at Collabra)

Albert¹,

Ruiter²

2018

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“…As in other kinds of institutional interaction (e.g., Freed & Ehrlich, 2010), questions play an important role in guided museum tours, both those posed by docents to visitors (e.g., Yamazaki et al, 2009) and by visitors to docents (e.g., De Stefani & Mondada, 2014). The kinds of questions posed, and who poses them, may index the identities of speaker and addressee in institutional interaction.…”

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“…Thus, they argue that what is needed is a more refined understanding of engagement within socially situated interaction. In particular, guided tours, which have recently become a focus of research on interaction in various settings (e.g., Avni, 2013;De Stefani & Mondada, 2014;Mondada, 2013), are a good candidate for examining visitor engagement in relation to stance and identity.…”

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Storytelling in guided tours

Burdelski

Kawashima

Yamazaki

2014

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This article examines storytelling (narratives) in interaction at a Japanese American museum. The analysis draws upon audiovisual recordings of tours led by older, male Japanese American docents. It examines ways docents tell stories -primarily of vicarious experience -in educating visitors on JapaneseAmerican history, and ways they use a range of verbal and non-verbal communicative practices that invite visitors' engagement in the telling as a social and sense-making activity. We categorize two types of communicative practices: elicited and non-elicited. Elicited practices include (1) interrogative and polar questions, which are further divided into (a) known and (b) unknown information questions, and (2) other-repetition + list intonation. Non-elicited practices include affective talk and gestures in recounting past events. We show ways that visitor engagement varies in relation to elicited and non-elicited practices. Finally, we discuss storytelling as a vehicle for displaying and positioning the self and others in relation to stance and identity, and in working towards the goals of the museum.

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“…Deceptively "simple" actions, such as stopping together to focus on an object of interest, are the result of moment-by-moment adjustments of walkers (Mondada, 2009(Mondada, , 2014. Walking is tightly interwoven with, and draws on, the organisation and achievement of "linguistic" actions, such as closing a conversation (Broth & Mondada, 2013), or role-taking and making responsibilities accountable (Stefani & Mondada, 2013). Walking, talking, and other embodied practices in the environment are interdependent, and therefore navigating while in the countryside is in turn interdependent on various other outdoor practices.…”

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“…Video recording has been used for a range of EMCA research studies of walking (Broth & Mondada, 2013;Stefani & Mondada, 2013), mobile technologies "in the wild" (Brown et al, 2013), and mobility (Brown & Spinney, 2010). Mobile video documents details of actions which might be missed by other observational or ethnographic methods .…”

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“Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland

Smith

Laurier

Reeves

et al. 2019

Trans Inst British Geog

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Resources made available through the digital map app change, but do not replace, the skills of “ordinary wayfinding.” Looking at the challenges of wayfinding with new mobile devices helps inform the development of digital mapping tools for navigating through difficult terrain. With this background in mind, in this paper we consider how the contemporary navigational resources of mobile devices with GPS, and the resources of countryside landscape features, are brought together in visiting a tourist site. We analyse video data from groups walking across unfamiliar moorland terrain, following a guide and map app which takes them on a tour of a remote Roman marching camp in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. Following an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic approach, we examine three instances of navigational work for paired walkers as they traverse the moorland. The three fragments are of: an orientational struggle to establish where to go next; a routine check to select a path; and the discovery of a feature mentioned in the guide. Across the three episodes we explicate how our walkers make sense of the guide and map in relation to investigating the moorland surface. We examine how their ambulatory and undulatory practices on the moorland are tied to their wayfinding practices. While we analyse wayfinding talk, we also attend to the mobile practices of stopping and pausing as part of practical navigational reasoning.

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Reorganizing Mobile Formations

Cited by 44 publications

References 10 publications

Improving human interaction research through ecological grounding (in press at Collabra)

Improving human interaction research through ecological grounding (in press at Collabra)

Storytelling in guided tours

“Off the beaten map”: Navigating with digital maps on moorland

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