The Social Interaction and Technology (SIT) Special Interest Group advances the adoption and deployment of interaction-oriented studies of technology in use (such as those informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis). SIT centres technologies’ use in and as people’s social practices, i.e., prioritising a sociotechnical view that technologies new and old need to be understood for their place in the midst of material, social contextures.
SIT's secondary focus is on understanding / developing / critically appraising the relationship between interaction-oriented approaches to studying people and technology, and other possible outcomes they relate to, e.g., longstanding interests in shaping technology design, design concepts and process, policy, ethics, etc.
SIT's strategic aim is to act as an anchor point for interaction-oriented studies’ engagement with technology at an international level. Since these approaches tend to be disparately spread across many disciplinary boundaries, the group enables greater visibility for the Mixed Reality Lab, the School of Computer Science, and University of Nottingham, as nodes in the broader network of likeminded researchers.
Connections
VAST (Video Analysis, Science, and Technology; Hong Kong)
