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View article: A Public Records Review of Cadaver and Terminal Animal Use in US and Canadian Veterinary Schools
A Public Records Review of Cadaver and Terminal Animal Use in US and Canadian Veterinary Schools Open
Veterinary students, interns, and residents have often been taught medical and surgical skills using cadavers or terminal surgeries. However, the number of animals used by veterinary schools, their sources, and the types of procedures taug…
View article: Discovering the Familiar: Exploring Everyday Practice in the Design of Tools and Artefacts
Discovering the Familiar: Exploring Everyday Practice in the Design of Tools and Artefacts Open
The design of everyday objects and artefacts, tools and technologies can prove particularly challenging for design. Their very pervasiveness, ease of application and seeming simplicity can mask the complex array of human practice, knowledg…
View article: Recipient design in human–robot interaction: the emergent assessment of a robot’s competence
Recipient design in human–robot interaction: the emergent assessment of a robot’s competence Open
People meeting a robot for the first time do not know what it is capable of and therefore how to interact with it—what actions to produce, and how to produce them. Despite social robotics’ long-standing interest in the effects of robots’ a…
View article: Reconciling knowledge sharing with individual tasks: interaction and interruptions in the open-plan office
Reconciling knowledge sharing with individual tasks: interaction and interruptions in the open-plan office Open
The contribution of the open-plan office to work and organisation has long been a matter of some debate. Aside from its economic advantages, it is argued that it provides an important opportunity for colleagues to share knowledge and help …
View article: Embedding Impact in Research: Addressing the Interactional Production of Workplace Activities
Embedding Impact in Research: Addressing the Interactional Production of Workplace Activities Open
As scholars both in the UK and we discuss a distinctive approach to developing impact that rests upon close cooperation between academics and practitioners from the outset of a particular project. The approach draws upon ethnomethodology a…
View article: Transparency and Embodied Action: Turn Organization and Fairness in Complex Institutional Environments
Transparency and Embodied Action: Turn Organization and Fairness in Complex Institutional Environments Open
Institutional settings in which large numbers of participants have the right and in some cases the responsibility to contribute to the proceedings pose particular challenges to the order and allocation of turns. These challenges are organi…
View article: Visible objects of concern: Issues and challenges for workplace ethnographies in complex environments
Visible objects of concern: Issues and challenges for workplace ethnographies in complex environments Open
Over the past few decades, we have witnessed the widespread deployment of technologies that enable real-time interaction between co-located and remote participants. These technologies and their accompanying organisational arrangements have…
View article: Exchanging Implements: The Micro‐Materialities of Multidisciplinary Work in the Operating Theatre
Exchanging Implements: The Micro‐Materialities of Multidisciplinary Work in the Operating Theatre Open
Surgical procedures rely upon an array of commonplace tools, implements and materials that mediate practice and disciplinary collaboration within the operating theatre.Substantial time is dedicated to the issue and provision of these artef…
View article: The Naturalistic Experiment
The Naturalistic Experiment Open
In this paper, we discuss ways in which quasi-naturalistic experiments can contribute to the analysis of social interaction in organizations and our understanding of practice, materiality, and technology. We focus on the contributions of t…
View article: Creating Interdependencies: Managing Incidents in Large Organizational Environments
Creating Interdependencies: Managing Incidents in Large Organizational Environments Open
In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of large-scale centers of command and control that bring together a range of personnel from various services responsible for the management of day-to-day incidents and events. These multicen…
View article: Exchanging implements: the micro‐materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre
Exchanging implements: the micro‐materialities of multidisciplinary work in the operating theatre Open
Surgical procedures rely upon an array of commonplace tools, implements and materials that mediate practice and disciplinary collaboration within the operating theatre. Substantial time is dedicated to the issue and provision of these arte…
View article: Embedded Reference: Translocating Gestures in Video-Mediated Interaction
Embedded Reference: Translocating Gestures in Video-Mediated Interaction Open
Audio-visual technologies can enable informal communication akin to face-to-face interaction. However, they prove less successful when deployed to support work and organisational activities. This is, in part, due to the limited ways such t…
View article: Action at the exhibit face: video and the analysis of social interaction in museums and galleries
Action at the exhibit face: video and the analysis of social interaction in museums and galleries Open
Whilst we can observe a considerable increase in importance of arts and museum marketing, research of people’s engagement with art in exhibitions is relatively rare. This neglect of people’s action and interaction in exhibitions is somewha…
View article: Transcribing Embodied Action
Transcribing Embodied Action Open