EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 10, 2019
The Advanced Cognitive Ethnography Lab & Centre for Human Interactivity invite you to take part in the 3rd Embodied Interaction Symposium on Cognitive Ethnography and qualitative methods for the study of micro-scales in interaction.
Confirmed Keynote Speaker
Associate Prof. Morana Alač (University of San Diego)
Call for Abstracts
The theme of the 3rd Embodied Interaction Symposium is Cognitive ethnography and qualitative methods for the study of micro-scales in interaction.
In the 1980's Clifford called for an "outdoor psychology" and Edwin Hutchins later elaborated the critique by stating that symbolic and cognitive anthropology left society and practice behind when they split off from social anthropology. Hutchins himself, however, conducted cognitive ethnography studies in "the wild". His studies paved the way for cognitive ethnography - a method apt for studying human cognition as distributed in its natural environment. His studies were radical and have had a huge impact on how researchers conceptualise and study human cognition. Therefore, by using cognitive ethnography, one moves into the domain of distributed cognition, but - from an embodied interaction perspective - this approach gives rise to two challenges:
1. How do we analyse data of natural human coordination? Hutchins argues that cognitive ethnography is a descriptive enterprise, however, there are no specific analytical procedures for how to analyse the rich data generated by video-ethnography studies.
2. As cognitive ethnography grew out of the distributed cognition tradition, it pivots on functional systems rather than intercorporeal human beings. Se where does cognitive ethnography leave phenomenology, language and sense-making bodies?
Researchers within the field of embodied interaction, are interested in understanding the experiential basis for coordination between people who rely on language and sense-making bodies. That is, how human beings use their bodies as a perceptual, historical organ for sense-making. Within this broad frame, we call for contributions that focus on one or more of the following sub-themes:
- Qualitative methods for the study of real-time interaction
- The relationship between Distributed Cognition and Embodied Interaction
- Cognitive ethnography and phenomenology
- Investigations of intercorporeality in human interaction
- Cognitive ethnography and the role of language
All papers should be based on empirical video-data. We are interested in a broad discussion that spans methodological challenges, practical findings, and theoretical contributions. However, we emphasise that all papers should discuss those aspects from an embodied perspective.
Submission Guidelines
Deadline: April 10, 2019. (EXTENDED)
Acceptance notifications: April 20, 2019.
Please submit a title and an abstract of 300-500 words to sarbro@sdu.dk or johannesp@sdu.dk.
If you have any questions, please send them to: sarbro@sdu.dk or johannesp@sdu.dk.
On behalf of the Organising Committee
Sarah Bro Trasmundi and Johanne S. Philipsen
University of Southern Denmark